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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 004

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 214 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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• •. . ...sfA.NDAAdtr0AM NO. C~ ., •f ,.. ~ .Office Memorandum• • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To ~~rector, FBI D ATE : 12/28/48 FR~ { \ Ac, Houston syBJ: ~ YING PISCt;: L, l_; LONNIE EDWo/OACK, Complainant Attention: Assistant Director D. M. Ladd Remytel 12/28/48 in the above captioned matter. F9,P-"'the BU7eau's information, on 12/27/48 Mr. FULLER "1:fLACKWELL, an attorney with offices 410 Kress BuiLding, Houston, Texas, telepho~ically contacted the~oton Office to advise that he had a friend, LONNI OACK, who had some information on an object which ight be a flying disc. Mr . BLACKWELL stated he was calling in response to Mr. NOACK's suggestion and as a means of determining what authorities would have an interest in this matter . He said Mr . NOACK was a machinist employed by the Humble 011 and Refining Company, Houston. Mr. BLACKWELL, in calling, advised that the disc, or object , was approximately eight feet i n diameter, had a tail and wings, and apparently was equipped for jet propulsion. He stated NOACK had observed this.object at a desert location near Las Vegas, Nevada; further, that Mr. NOACK had taken some movie film of the disc and that this film was currently in his possession. Immediately upon receipt of the above information, Mr. Robert B. Fleming, Special Agent, o.s.r., Ellington Field, Texas, was notified as was true of Captain Harold Bush, MID representative, also Houston. As a result of these referrals, arrangements were effected with Mr. NO~ to bring his film to the Houston Office for a showi ~~ P.M., 12/27/48. This was done with Messrs . Bush, ~~~leming, Noack, and Special Agent Graham W. Kitchel and ~~Cj\,)~C).,, the writer observing. Arrangements were then made for ~ ~ - Mr. NOACK to again a~pear at the Houston Office on the i \\ morning of 12/28/48 in order that his information might be &:duced to writing. Mr . NOACK in making his initial w>pearance at the office surrendered his movie film which ~ ~ consisted of one 50 foot roll of 8 nim mov1e •f11m. Approximately ~)(_,~ i;,,.od i l "lliY (\f\ ~ S)) . C\) 4J ~;R..,~ q~, / 1 V ' \ , c oP ~s DESTROYED ~ · , ~tCO~U'- - • F - I ~ 2 7 U NOV 18 l~b4 .. .1l n ~ JAN 141949 \"\)°'t\, •

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