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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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As the machine went by the UNIX place, the trees over which it almost directly passed (Norman Populars) did not just bend with the wind as if a plane had gone by, but in UNIX's words, "spun around on top as if they were in a vacuum." KETT URIL, eight years of age, said he first saw the machine coming down the easyn, heading from east to west and following the contours of the ground. KILLY, age ten, saw it almost immediately. Both watched 12 fly out of sight behind a tree in a matter of moments. They said they then ran to their Father and learned that he doo had seen the machine. UNIL seemed completely sincere about the incident. He said his wife and daughter were in the house at the time and had not seen the machine. He questioned his brother, who also lives in the canyon, but his brother had been eating at the time and had seen nothing. UNIL and his two boys maintained that they had never seen one of the discs. UNIL, when interviewed, appeared to be a sober, middle-aged man. JOHN BROSWAN, the "Times News" reporter who originally furnished Special Agents with information about the incident. Likewise stated that URIN appeared completely sincere about the machine. No further attempt was made to locate L. v. HAWKINS, inasmuch as J. N. BORN, who was with HAWKINS at the time, was interviewed. BROWN's name was withheld from the newspaper because HAWKINS and BROWN were fishing at Salmon dame while BROWN was supposed to have been working in Twin Falls. BRO'M said simply that he and HAWKINS could hear a roar. They looked up and could see two instruments flying at a great height, which BRO'M mentioned night have been between four thousand and six thousand feet. However, he said he had no idea how large the devices were and consequently, they may have been several miles away. He said that he and HAWKINS were satisfied they had seen something and they were very doubtful that they had seen two planes.
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.