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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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HEADQUARTERS, NEWFOUNDLAND BASE COMMAND ATLANTIC DIVISION, AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND FORT PEPPERRELL, NEWFOUNDLAND APO 862, POSTMASTER, NEW YORK, N. Y. IN REPLY REFER Classification canceled or Changed to Restricted MBC___ DNS Captaine . 6 Aug 147 30 July 1947 SUBJECT: Letter of Transmittal. TO : Commanding General, Atlantic Division, ATC, Fort Totten, Long Island, N. Y. (ATTENTION: AC/S, Intelligence) Reference Letter of Transmittal, this office, dated 28 July 1947, with four (4) inclosures (Inclosures 1, 2 and 3, Final Reports of Sightings of "flying saucers"; and Inclosure 4, Signed Statement - Constable KEARSEY), transmitted herewith is Final Report of Sighting of "flying saucers" in Newfoundland, which occurred at Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland at 0345Z, 23 July 1947. ## FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: Marion C. Miller MARION C. MILLER, Captain, Air Corps, AC/S, Intelligence. 1 Incl: Final Rpt of Sighting, 23 Jul 47 1st Ind. HQ, ATLANTIC DIVISION, ATC, FORT TOTTEN, L.I., NEW YORK 6 Aug 47 TO: Commanding General, Air Transport Command, Washington 25, D.C. ATTN: Chief of Staff Forwarded in accordance with instructions outlined in TNX CM-95, your Headquarters. 1 Incl: n/c JAMES H. BREWSTER, JR. Lt Col, GSC AC/S, Intelligence
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.