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This FBI file serial from case 62-HQ-83894 holds several copies of Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum Number 4, "Unconventional Aircraft." Major General C. P. Cabell, Director of Intelligence at Headquarters United States Air Force, issued the memorandum on 15 February 1949. It sets continuing Air Force requirements for information on unidentified flying objects, including "Flying Discs," and tells commands to send reports to Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB. It also includes a detailed checklist covering sighting details, observers, radar data and physical evidence, and the FBI Director appears on its distribution list.
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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RESTRICTED 3. Local flight schedules of commercial, private and m111tary a1rcra!t flying in vicinity at the time. (Check Canadian activity 1f close to that border.) 4. Possible releases of testing devices 1n vicinity sent aloft by Ordnance, Navy, Air Force, Army, Weather Units, Research Organizatlons or any other. 5. If object contacted earth, obtain soil samples within and without depression or spot where object landed (and then presumably departed) for purpose of making comparison of solls. 6. I! object came suffic iently near other aircraft or known objects check surfaces with Gelger counters for possible radioactivity. Make comparisons with other unaffected alrcr att objects, etc. 7. Obtain photographs (or original negatives) where available; if not, secure sketches of: a. Object. b. Surrounding terrain where observed. c . Place wher e it contacted earth (if this happened). d. Maneuvers. e. Formation 1f objects were more than two. 8. Secure s igned statement. 9. Obtain fragments or physical evidence where possible. 10. Was any radio antenna to be observed, Le., (any pr ojections or extentions that might presum ably be construed as such), c l?~C. P. CABELL Major General, USAF Director of IntelHgence, Office of Deputy Chief of Sta!f, Operations DISTRIBUTION: Commanding Generals, Major Air Commands, ZI and Overseas All United States Air Attaches Director of Central Intell1gence Special Assistant for Research and Intelllgence, Department of State Director of IntelHgence, GSUSA Chief of Naval Intelligence Commandant (INT), United States Coast Guard Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation RESTRI CT ED - 7 -
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 137 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.