Case file · Declassified record
The FBI 'Unidentified Flying Objects' file
Sixteen parts of FBI records on flying saucers, mostly from 1947–1954, released under FOIA and posted in the FBI Vault.
1947 CE · 38.90, -77.03 · status: official
The account
The file holds citizen letters, agent reports on local sightings, liaison with the Air Force, and the 1950 Hottel memo. It shows the Bureau briefly helping the military in 1947, then mostly forwarding reports.
The sceptical view
Researchers find no investigation of recovered craft in it. Most entries are routine sighting reports.
Connections in the atlas
- NSA UFO document releases
- Hoover's 'discs recovered' note (FBI UFO file)
- The Hottel memo
- Bruce Maccabee
- The FBI 'Rommel Report'