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FBI UFO Files - Flying Discs investigations (1947-1977) and Western US 2025

A collection of 20 FBI documents covering the Bureau's investigations into UAP phenomena. Includes the historic 62-HQ-83894 case file (1947-1977) documenting the first wave of flying disc reports following the Kenneth Arnold incident of June 1947, FD-302 interview transcripts from 2023 related to the multi-witness Western United States sighting, and the landmark USPER statement from a senior U.S. intelligence official describing a close encounter with a "super-hot" UAP at a military facility, declassified in 2025 and released through PURSUE Release 1 in May 2026.

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FBI UFO Files - Flying Discs investigations (1947-1977) and Western US 2025

FBI Flying Saucer File: The First Section — Origins of the Central Investigation (1947)

FBI Flying Saucer File: Case 62-HQ-83894, Section 2 — Early Reports, Summer 1947

FBI Flying Saucer File: Record Group 65, Case 62-HQ-83894, Section 3 — The Summer of 1947

Serial 130: The FBI and U.S. Military Investigation into "Flying Discs" — Summer 1947

"Flying Saucers" over Oak Ridge: Historical Photographs from July 1947

FBI Case File 62-HQ-83894, Sub-File A: Press Clipping Collection on 'Flying Saucers,' 1947–1953

FBI Case File 62-HQ-83894, Section 6: Second Summary of Flying Disc Incidents in the United States

The FBI Flying Saucer Case File: Analysis of Section 5 of Central File 62-HQ-83894

A Letter from Mexico to Washington: An Inventor from Veracruz and the First "Flying Saucer" Photographs from Durango, 1950

FBI Flying Saucer File: Record Group 65, Case 62-HQ-83894, Section 9 — Investigations of the 1950s

The FBI Flying Saucer File — Section 8: 1954 to 1957

POW Testimony: A Circular Aircraft over Nazi Germany, 1944

Unidentified Flying Object over Detroit: FBI Report, April 17, 1958

The Socorro Incident, 1964: The Complete FBI Report on an Unidentified Flying Object

FBI Document on Flying Saucers: Surveillance of UFO Organizations and the "Contactee" Movement in the United States, 1966

FBI Unidentified Flying Objects File: Case 62-HQ-83894, Section 10 (1966–1977)

They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers: Gray Barker's Book in the FBI Files

FBI 302 Interview — UAP Incident, September 2023 (Serial 3)

FBI 302 Witness Interview: UAP Sighting at a U.S. Test Site, September 2023 (Serial 4)

FBI 302 Interview, September 2023: Drone Pilot Describes Brilliant Light and Linear Metallic Object (Serial 5)

USPER Statement: A Senior US Intelligence Official's UAP Encounter at a Military Facility, 2025

FBI Flying Disc Records: Analysis of File 62-HQ-83894, Section 4

Research Document: The FBI Central Flying Saucer Case File, Section 7

Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum No. 4: The Official Reporting Protocol for "Unconventional Aircraft" — the FBI and U.S. Air Force Headquarters, 1949