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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 004

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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section (62-HQ-83894, Section 4) collects 1947 to 1949 correspondence on flying discs. It includes Portland police officers' accounts of a silvery object over the city on September 11, 1947, an Alaska pilot's July 1947 sighting near Bethel, citizen letters answered by J. Edgar Hoover, and a 1948 Air Defense Command directive on disc investigations. The FBI replied that it was conducting no flying disc investigations. Later items concern William Albert Rhodes's disc photographs and a Los Angeles letter judged a probable prank.

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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• 100M Authority: NND90986 HE~DQUARTERS AIR MATERIEL COMMAND MCIAXD-3/FWA/awIN REPLY ADDRESS 10TH COMMUNICATION AND EN• Wright-Patterson AF Base,,.VELOPE TO COMMANDING GENERAL, A IR MATIERIEl l«IIJIJ(ll9 ••••••;,.-., COMMAND, A T T S N T I O N FOLLOWING OFFICE SYMBOL: 9 September 1948 MCUX0..3 Director Federal Dlresu of Investigation Department of Justice Washington. D. C. A!l'l!N: FBI Laborator,y &IBJ'RCT: Projeet "SIGN" Gentlemen: Accompanying this letter is a small sample of soil. This eoilr ~s taken from a depression reputed to have been caused by a'-.Bflying S81l.cer11 described as being approximately two feet in diameterand. one foot thick which. supposedly settled gently to the ground, rebounded to a height of abou.t twenty feet and then contimed. on its journey. Al.though. the declivity was immedi ately covered by a large washtub a heavy rain fP.1bsequently filled ~ the depression about one/third full of water before any sample of dirt could be taken. In an effort to approach this incident objectively to deteI"' mine every possible clue, it bas been deemed advisable to have this soil sample analyzed and tested. Upon inquiry, your ~n representative stated that the FBI Laboratoey would accomplish the required. tests. Dt.O. / .., / ! / £CO~ h - - ,,, / ' It is the desf re of this Head.~1.arte»s-48--&seep-t,ein, in par 1- cu.lar, if there are traces of unusualReme~ or &.loys adhering to the surface of the particles, o~lf 91V :reJSnb!MaJ i ty in structure exista aho~ that the soil ms su~;•~intense beat, ll"-""" or radio-active subst?.DCes. etc. Unfor • y, in this regard, no one thought to forward a. sample ~unding the de- pression 80 no comparison of soils can be made at this time. ~d the subsequent test show qthing unusual some arrangement could be made to procure some ,of the surrounding soil 80 that a comparative analysis could be ma.de. The aceomp~ing sample bas not been test ed by any other agency, nor will it be. J ~ }'J!v~ {J.t_p,,,v q f' ·~ ~ COPIES DESTPC''{;fl 27 0 NOV 1 81964 'I

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