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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. PURSUE Release 5 added eight FD-302 witness interviews from 2011 to 2026: a dark, translucent triangle over Colorado Springs, a large triangle with red lights, white lights observed from airliner cockpits, and red lights in the western United States after which one witness found his analog watch running 25 minutes fast. Eight FBI digital renderings prepared in 2026 as visual aids accompany them.

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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-UAP-D011, D/FBI Correspondence Referral, 1949

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

FBI-UAP-D012, Newark Field Office Special Inquiry: Unidentified Flying Objects, New Jersey, 1952–1967

FBI-UAP-D013: Washington State UFO Investigation File, 1952-1960

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)

FBI-UAP-D014: Correspondence Relating to UFO Sightings — a Chicago Child's Report (1967) and the Larry Bryant Exchange (1974)

FBI-UAP-D024: White Lights Over North America and a Black Triangle Over Bagram - An FD-302 Pilot Interview

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

FBI-UAP-D028: FD-302 - "Dark Triangle with Lights", Two Former Service Members, 2011

FBI-UAP-D004, FD-1057-02, Northeastern United States, 2024

FBI FD-1057-04: Interview of U.S. Person Regarding UAP Sightings, Northeastern United States, October 2024

FBI FD-1057-05: Site Survey of U.S. Person Property Regarding UAP Activity, Northeastern United States, November 2024

FBI-UAP-D001, FD-302, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022

FBI-UAP-D002, FD-1057, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022

FBI-UAP-D003, Digital Rendering, Unresolved UAP Report, Colorado Springs, 2022

FBI-UAP-D026: The Dark Translucent Triangle Over Colorado Springs - Four Seconds on an FD-302

FBI-UAP-D030: FD-302 - "Large Triangle with Red Lights", Colorado Springs, October 2023

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)

FBI FD-1057-06: First-Hand UAP Observations by Two Special Agents, Northeastern United States, November 2024

FBI FD-1057-07: Site Survey Following UAP Observations, Northeastern United States, December 2024

ODNI USPER Narrative: First-Person Account of a Senior US Intelligence Official, Late 2025

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

FBI-UAP-D009, FD-302-67, "Northeastern Orb Sighting," 2026

FBI-UAP-D010, FD-302-71, "Northeastern Orb Sighting," 2026

FBI-UAP-D032: FD-302 - Two "Black Hot" Objects Cued by an RF Detection, Western United States 2026

FBI-UAP-D033: FD-302 - A Signed Statement on a "Thermally Elevated Aerial Object", and a Black Hawk Used as a Ruler, Western United States 2026

FBI-UAP-D037: FD-302 - Multiple Red Lights in the Western United States, 2026, and the Watch Anomaly

FBI-UAP-D040: FD-302 - The Second Witness: Red Lights That Appeared to Sync Up, Western United States, 2026

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