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This FBI file serial collects 1947 Army Air Forces reports on flying disc sightings. It includes Air Defense Command interviews from September 1947 with Pan American pilot Alpheus Powell and navigator Walter White about orange objects seen near Boston on 4 August 1947. It also holds a Birmingham, Alabama report with a photograph, newspaper clippings and a sergeant's sworn statement, Newfoundland and Alaska sighting reports, notes on an instrument found in Illinois, and a Weather Bureau memo on a metallic disk.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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May 18th - A. 1 officer's branch NW of Topeka (Clay Center - Kansas) Flying @ 104° @ 90° 1305 @ 200 mph There @ 120° a little higher when fires occur, though it was a water tower; atoms a mile away it looked like a flying wing except it was flying retractedly and almost completely round. No smoke, no fire, but no bright it almost hurt his eye Then he turned toward it and it disappeared almost immediately . He believes it must have been super sonic because of speed at which it disappeared : This co-pilot was doing at the crime and by the time he was waking the object disappeared. Original practice was to not recognize it , but it came up as fact , then appeared to stop , then disappeared . handed at Kansas City 1400 hrs Central Time . This took place approx 1315
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 126 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.