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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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# CONFIDENTIAL # RESTRICTED Interrogation of John N. Nehrman, Jr Q. Can you describe the trail? A. It was blueish black in color, very easily distinguished from the blue sky. A diesel exhaust would be similar to it. Q. Was the trail fan shaped? A. No it was more or less a band across the sky in a straight path. Q. Did it make a noise? 4. No noise. Q. What went on in the car when you sighted the object? A. We stopped the car and got out and looked at it. One of the boys had a camera and took a photograph of the trail that the object left. Q. What was the name of the man who took the photograph? A. Robert Leidy. Q. Do you know what type of film Mr Leidy was using? A. Kodachrome, I believe. Q. Do you know whether Mr. Leidy saw the Disk or object? A. I don't believe so. JOHN P. KENNEDY , JR Supervisor and Mechanic Trans World Airways Sworn and subscribed to before me this ___ day of July 1947. S. L. HINSON, JR Captain, Air Corps Adjutant CONFIDENTIAL in
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.