Documents / Official release
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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SUBJECT: Letter of Transmittal. Commanding General, Atlantic Division, ATC Fort Totten, Long Island, M. I. (ATTENTION: AC/S, Intelligence) 1. Transmitted herewith, as inclusures 1, 2 and 3, are Final Reports of Sightings of "flying saucers" in Newfoundland and vicinity listed as follows: Final Report of Sighting - 2000Z, 10 July 1947 - 0030Z, 11 July 1947 - 0015Z, 20 July 1947 2. Reference TWX - EN 18469, this headquarters, dated 121730Z July 1947, regarding sightings of "flying saucers" by Constable ERIC KEARSEY, Newfoundland Constabulary, at Grand Falls, Newfoundland, on the night of 9 July 1947, attached herewith, as inclusion 4, is signed statement of this sighting by Constable KEARSEY. FOR THE COMMANDING GENERALs 4 Incls: 1. Final Rpt of Sighting, 10 Jul 47 2. " " " " , 11 Jul 47 3. " " " " , 20 Jul 47 4. Signed Statement - Const KEARSEY MARION C. MILLER Captain, Air Corps, AC/S, Intelligence.
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.