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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.
“Nevers”16 pages
# HEADQUARTERS FLYING DIVISION, AIR TRAINING COMMAND Office of the Commanding General 1F Randolph Field, Texas 10 July 1947 333. 5 SUBJECT: Unidentifiable Objects TO: Commanding General Tenth Air Force Brooks Field, Texas Attn: ACofS, A-2 1. The inclosed MOIG is forwarded for your information. 2. In the event that Lt. E. B. Armstrong has been interviewed by your Headquarters, request that a copy of the MOIC be furnished to this Headquarters. FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: 1 Incl MOIC H. L. CRISLER Lt. Colonel, G.S.C. Asst. Chief of Staff, A-2 333. 5 1st Ind DC HEADQUARTERS TENTH AIR FORCE, OFFICE OF THE ASST CHIEF OF STAFF, A-2, BROOKS FIELD, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, 16 July 1947 TO: Commanding General, Flying Division, Air Training Command, Randolph Fld., Texas ATTN: Asst Chief of Staff, A-2 Inclosed is Memorandum for the Officer in Charge in reference to Lt. E. B. Armstrong, as suggested in paragraph 2, basic communication. 1 Incl MOIC, dtd 15 July 47 1 Incl withdrawn MOIC, dtd 7 July 47 S.H. MORROW Colonel, GSC Asst Chief of Staff, A-2
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.