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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Serial 130

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 126 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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”18 pages

  • p. 1 IN REPLY REFER TO: HEADQUARTERS AIR DEFENSE COMMAND MITCHEL FIELD, NEW YORK 12 September 1947 SUBJECT…
  • p. 2 IN REPLY REFER TO: HEADQUARTERS AIR DEFENSE COMMAND MITCHEL FIELD, NEW YORK 15 September 1947 SUBJECT…
  • p. 5 …Forwarded for information of your Headquarters. 2. This Headquarters has made no investigation of "Flying Disc…
  • p. 7 HEADQUARTERS BIRMINGHAM AIR RESERVE TRAINING DETACHMENT BIRMINGHAM ARMY AIR FIELD Birmingham, Alabama 8 July 1947 SUBJECT…
  • p. 10 …Birmingham police headquarters was flooded with calls, too, last night. So was the Weather Bureau the…
  • p. 12 …They seemed to go over the mountain." At police headquarters, Officer E. E. McNeal said reports…
  • p. 15 …Chief of Staff Forwarded in accordance with instructions outlined in TNX CM-95, your Headquarters. 1…
  • p. 17 …Reference TWX - EN 18469, this headquarters, dated 121730Z July 1947, regarding sightings of "flying saucers" by…
  • p. 25 # INTELLIGENCE OFFICE # HEADQUARTERS 1388TH AAF BASE UNIT NEWFOUNILAND BASE COMMAND, ATLD-ATG APO 864, c/o…
  • p. 27 ## INTELLIGENCE OFFICE HEADQUARTERS 1356TH AAF BASE UNIT NEWFOUNDLAND BASE COMMAND, ATLB-ATG APO 864, e/o…
  • p. 37 …1947 SUBJECT: Investigation of Flying Disc. TO: Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Washington 25, D. C. ATTENTION…
  • p. 46 …Armstrong has been interviewed by your Headquarters, request that a copy of the MOIC be furnished…
  • p. 51 …Inclosed herewith for your information is investigation relative to Unidentifiable Objects which was initiated at Headquarters…
  • p. 80 …The following information was related to Counter Intelligence Corps Personnel at Headquarters Fifteenth Air Force, Colorado…
  • p. 84 …Attached statements and MOICs forwarded to your office per request TMX from Headquarters Air Defense Command…
  • p. 104 …Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Headquarters Tactical Air Command Langley Field, Virginia Received AFB1R-60…
  • p. 115 …ARMY AIR FORCES WISCONSIN WING HEADQUARTERS 161 W. WISCONSIN AVENUE # 161 W. WISCONSIN AVENUE MILWAUKEE 3…
  • p. 120 …FOR SEVERAL MINUTES BY MAJOR GRAHM THIS HEADQUARTERS SEVERAL OFFICERS FROM ALASKAN DEPARTMENT SUBSTANTIATED HIS STORY…

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BASIC: Ltr. Hq. BARTD, Birmingham AAF, Birmingham, Ala., dtd 8 July 47, subj: Report on Local "Flying Disc."

319. 1/684 1st Ind. D

HEADQUARTERS, FOURTEENTH AIR FORCE, Orlando, Florida,

TO: Commanding General, Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York.

1. Forwarded for information of your Headquarters.

2. This Headquarters has made no investigation of "Flying Disc" reports because this is an isolated case.

FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL:

3 Incls: n/o

Mr Murphy

Dr. Colunel AGD

Asat, Aqp, Gen.

Cases discussed

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