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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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## Report Number ## Observer's Name 1 D. A. Houser F. J. Smith L. D. Jamison 2 Byron Savage 3 E. L. DeRose 4 Kenneth Arnold 5 Wilson H. Kayko John H. Cantrell Redman Theodore Dewey 6 C. H. Zohn J. R. Kauke C. C. Rockwood Nancy Rockwood 7 Richard Rankin 8 E. J. Smith Ralph Stevens 9 A. B. Browning 10 Jas. H. Burniston 11 Not Stated " " 12 Not Stated " " 13 Alvin E. Moorman 14 Iric Kearsey 15 Mr. Mehrman Mr. Woodruff 16 Grahm and several other officers ## Occupation Railroad Employee " " " " Businessman-Pilot Not stated Business-man Pilot Captain, AAF " " " " 1st Lieut., AAF Employee, N.L. " " " " Wife of C.C. Rockwood Civilian Pilot United Air Lines Pilot " " " Co-Pilot Major, AAF Captain, AAF CAP Instructor CAP Student CAP Pilot CAP Passenger 1st Lieut., ACCNG Constable, Newfoundland Constabulary TWA Representative PAA " Major, AAF Observed From Ground " " Ground Ground Air Ground " " " Ground " " Ground Air " Air Ground Air " Air " Air Ground Ground " Ground *From letter received, observer is obviously well educated.
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.