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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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MESSAGEFORM MESSAGE CENTER NO. TRANSMITTING MEANS CRYPTOGRAPH OR CLEAR TEXT CALLS STA. SER. NO. PRECEDENCE PRIORITY TRANSMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ORIGINATOR DATE/TIME GROUP V NR July 47 ACTION INFORMATION EXEMPT OPERATING SIGNALS GROUP COUNT SPACE ABOVE FOR SIGNAL CENTER ONLY FROM: (Originator) 59th AACS Group FINYN Elmendorf Alaska SECURITY CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL ACTION TO: CONAS ATTH ASST CHIEF STAFF INTELLIGENCE ORIGINAL MESSAGE REFERS TO ANOTHER MESSAGE IDENTIFICATION CLASSIFICATION INFORMATION TO: OBJECT RESEMBLING A GRAYISH BALLOON APPROXIMATELY ONE ZERO FEET IN DIAMETER OBSERVED FROM ELMENDORF FIELD FLYING IN NORTHWEST DIRECTION FOLLOWING COSTOUR OF MOUNTAINS FIVE MILES AWAY PD OBJECT FLYING ALTITUDE ONE FIVE ZERO FEET ESTIMATING ONE ZERO ZERO MILES PER HOUR IT WAS OBSERVED PARALLELING THE COURSE OF CHARLIE DASH FOUR SEVEN LANDING NORTHWEST INTO TWO ZERO MILE PER HOUR WIND PD OBJECT WAS OBSERVED ONE TWO ZERO FOUR THREE ZERO ZEBRA FOR SEVERAL MINUTES BY MAJOR GRAHM THIS HEADQUARTERS SEVERAL OFFICERS FROM ALASKAN DEPARTMENT SUBSTANTIATED HIS STORY PD Received AFB1R-CO 14 July 47 Paraphrase not required. Handle as CONDINENTIAL correspondence per paragraphs 511 and 60a (4), AH 380-5, 15 August 1946. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION AUTHORIZATION CONFIDENTIAL SIGNATURE ORIGINATING AGENCY SYMBOL DATE-TIME GROUP OFFICIAL TITLE PAGE OF 10-45001-1 W. B. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 126 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.