65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_3
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.
Document Highlights
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Short overview
This file section preserves UFO-related publication material, clippings, correspondence, and claims that were retained in a government archive file. It is most useful for tracing how UFO reports, contactee narratives, official-interest references, and media claims circulated together.
Why this is interesting
For initial orientation, the most relevant points are:
- UFO / flying-disc references
- reported performance, speed, or maneuver claims
- official handling, Air Force, FBI, Pentagon, Blue Book, or agency context
- modern mission report
- named witnesses, places, or historically identifiable cases
Selected passages
Page 150 — Official handling or agency-context material
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SUBJECT: Flying Disks am Reference is made to Bureau Bulle tin No.42 dated July 30, 1947. 1-7 This is to advise that two army officers reported to the Office of the Director of Intelligence, headquarters Alaskan Department, at Fort Richardson, Alaska, that they had witnessed an object passing through the air at a tremendous rate of speed which could not be judged as to miles per hour. The first officer stated that his attention was attracted to this airborne object, and he in turn pointed it out to the second of-…
Page 92 — Official handling or agency-context material
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August 271947 Director,FBI Re: Flying Discs-Tacoma, Wn. Mr. ARnoLD stated he received a telephone call from the press upon returning to his hotel room, and that the press wanted to know about the flying disc fragments and he told them that he was not talking until he had proved it. He stated he did not know how the press ever knew he was in Tacoma or had seen DAHL. Mr.ARNOLD informed that at 9:30 A.M.the next morningJuly 31 1947, and forget about the discs, that his story was not false, but that he had had enough…
Page 136 — Official handling or agency-context material
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AVAGE, Field EngineerRadio Corporation of America,DallasTexas. Residence: 416 N.w.295h Street, Oklahoma CityOklahome.) RE: Flyind Disc. On 23 July 1947BYRON B. SAVAGE was interviewed at his residence 416 N.W. 29th Street,Oklahoma City Oklahomarelating to his alleged viewing of a flying disc over the vicinity of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Subject, whose age is 38, advised he is married and has one child, and is presently the holder of a Private Pilot's License No.39l0l Single Engine, Land). Subject averred he has…
Page 43 — Photograph, film, radar, or evidence-related material
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August 19,1947 August 3.A record of the phone calls.made from room 502 during this period was made by Miss SARAH LANGBERG. This record reveals that KENNETH ARNOID on July 3l called PAlMR at AN-5200 Evanston Illinois collect.On the same date called Lieutenant BRowN at 580o Hamilton Field, California collect. ARNOLD also called OlO9-J in BoiseIdaho on July 3l.On August 1 ARNOLD called LON-4936Portland; PALMER at Dearborn 5200, Chicago; and SMITH called RODDY at Dearborn 2323 at Chicago. Both Chicago calls were…
Page 91 — Official handling or agency-context material
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August27,1947 Director,FBI Re Flying Discs -Tacoma,Wn. of the information available regarding the disc fragments and that he understood that DAHL had told the press about the disc fragments stating there was nothing to the story and that it was a phoney. DAHL immediately replied that his story was not false or phoney, but that what he had seen and what had happened to him was so unusual and fantastic that he wanted to forget about the disc fragments. DAHL then agreed to tell Mr. ARnoLD the following story…
Page 82 — Official handling or agency-context material
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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT 4AF-1208-I 3.On 26 August 47s/A Habbard and this agent contacted Nr. Ray Switzer, Insurance Ad justor at tho Baffels Hotel, Placerville Californie. After traveling Cedar Ravine road to a point nine miles southesst of Plecerville, known as Buok's Bar, Switzer decided that the place from where he had observed the object on l4 Aug 47 was nearer to Placerville. After a thorough check of the road, Switzer bolieved the spot where he had observed the objeot to be on the ridgo just north of Webber…
Page 33 — Official handling or agency-context material
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August 141947 FLYING DISCS The Tacoma News Tribune" and through them the United Press put out a story that an army plane which was allegedly carrying parts of a disc which had struck a boat owned by Harold Dahl and Fred Chrisman had crashed on August 1,l947, killing two Air Force Intelligence officers who were interviewing persons who were alleged to have seen flying discs. Harold A. Dahl and Fred Chrisman, when interviewed by Bureau Agents, advised in a signed statement on August 7, l947 that in the early part…
Page 153 — Official handling or agency-context material
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STANDA 03To DirectorFBI DATE:September 18,1947 eds SUBJECT:FLYING OBJECT REPORTED OVER PHILADELPHIA AUGUST 6,1947 Bar SABOTAGE Remytel August 7 last. Miss ELEANORNADDLE, 2ll4 Hobart Street Philadelphia who is employed by the GEORGE R. GREENWALD MANUFACTURING COMPANY,l524 Chestnut Street,Phila- delphia, advised as follows: FCORDANG DEP Between 10:30 and 10:45 p.m. on August 61947she was sitting on the steps of her home with CEcELIA FINE. She was facing north and observed a large white object traveling at a very…