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1947, origin year.

June 1947 onward

Kenneth Arnold's Cascade sighting. The FBI's first institutional response patterns. Maury Island, Muroc, Rhodes. By August 19, intel agencies are privately discussing whether the saucers are a classified US experiment.

23 cases in this thread  /  4 headline reads

  1. 01 1946-09 / 1947-06 Horace P. Wenyon Rehoboth Beach Delaware Sightings, September 1946—June 1947 (Professional Pilot, Pre-Roswell, FBI Dismissal and Eastern Airlines/CAA Routing) MEDIUM FBI
  2. 02 1947-06-24 Kenneth Arnold Cascade Mountain Sighting, June 24, 1947 (FBI/4AF Investigative Interview + Original Narrative) HEADLINE FBI
  3. 03 1947-06-24 Kenneth Arnold Sighting Narrative, Cascade Mountains June 24, 1947 (First-Person Account, Exhibit A, Nine-Object Formation, Corroborating Witnesses Named, Yakima-Pendleton Chain) MEDIUM FBI
  4. 04 1947-07-07 William Albert Rhodes Phoenix Photographs, July 1947 and the 1947–1950 Recovery Dispute MEDIUM FBI
  5. 05 1947-07-08 Muroc Army Air Field CIC Affidavits, July 7–8, 1947 (Gilkey, Shoop, McHenry, Ruvolo, Scott, Robinson, Wise, Stapp) MEDIUM FBI
  6. 06 1947-07-09 to 1947-08-08 Raymond Edward Lane Luminous Paint & Radioactive Sand Incident, July 1947 MEDIUM FBI
  7. 07 1947-07-10 to 1947-09-17 Mrs. A. G. Sarbanis 'Radio Ham' Coded Alien Message Newspaper Case, July-September 1947 HEADLINE FBI
  8. 08 1947-07-12 David N. Johnson Gowen Field Idaho Aerial Sighting and Sworn Statement, July 6–12, 1947 (Idaho Daily Statesman Aviation Editor, 8mm Film, CIC Credibility Assessment, Brown-Davidson Joint Field Operation Confirmed) LOW FBI
  9. 09 1947-07-12 Kenneth Arnold Biographical Statement, 1947 (SOME LIFE DATA ON KENNETH ARNOLD — Eagle Scout, Olympic Diving Trials, Fire Control Engineer, 1,000-Hour Mountain Pilot) MEDIUM FBI
  10. 10 1947-07-28 4AF CIC Hamilton Field Pre-Maury-Island Investigation Cluster, July–August 1947 (Springer / Brown / Davidson / Nelson — Arnold / Johnson / Smith / Rankin / Baker / Ryherd) MEDIUM FBI
  11. 11 1947-08-03 Hackensack New Jersey Flying Disc Multi-Witness Institutional Case, August 3, 1947 (Army Soldier, Civilian Observers, Military/Civilian Coordination, Discrepancy Analysis) LOW FBI
  12. 12 1947-08-04 Davidson-Brown B-25 Crash, Final Mission Report (4 August 1947) MEDIUM FBI
  13. 13 1947-08-06 Ray Virgil Hatfield & Noble Ellison Myrtle Creek Oregon Sighting, August 6, 1947 MEDIUM FBI
  14. 14 1947-08-08 FBI 62-HQ-83894, Coyne-to-Ladd Institutional Memo and Ladd-to-Director Brief, August 1-8, 1947 (Bureau Leadership Internal Debate on Flying-Disc Investigation Mandate, Bird-Dog Framing, Japanese-Balloon Precedent, Bulletin #42 Action) MEDIUM FBI
  15. 15 1947-08-12 The Maury Island Incident as Documented Inside the Bureau (July–August 1947) HEADLINE FBI
  16. 16 1947-08-19 Government Secret Experiment Hypothesis: Fitch-Reynolds-Garrett Inter-Agency Discussion, August 19, 1947 HEADLINE FBI
  17. 17 1947-08-20 Two Civilian-Witness CIC Investigations, Summer 1947 (Switzer/Cedar Ravine Road full investigative arc; Madden/Canyon Ferry-York) LOW FBI
  18. 18 1947-09-04 Section 2 1947 Multi-Case Extension: Twin Falls Hedstrom, Bethel Alaska Peck/Daly, Lake Mead Armstrong, Myrtle Creek Hatfield/Ellison, McLeod-Hale AAF Policy Statement, and Forrest Wenyon Pre-Roswell Sightings MEDIUM FBI
  19. 19 1947-09-11 Portland Oregon Police Department Multi-Witness Cluster, September 11, 1947 (Chief of Police Leon V. Jenkins, Government Witnesses, Citywide Coordination, Newspaper Corroboration) LOW FBI
  20. 20 1947-09-17 FBI 62-HQ-83894-94 — Mrs. A. Sarbanis 'Radio Ham' Newsday Coded Message Witness Follow-Up: FBI Laboratory Decoding, New York Field Investigation, FCC Amateur Radio Records, City Editor Editorial Judgment as Disposition Authority, September 17, 1947 LOW FBI
  21. 21 1947-09-17 A. Courtney Parker Rix Ledges Lebanon New Hampshire Dual-Object Sighting, September 17, 1947 (Superintendent of Schools, Hoover-Level Acknowledgment, Professional Witness) LOW FBI
  22. 22 1947-09-23 FBI 62-HQ-83894-122 — Danforth, Illinois Farm Instrument Examination, September 3–23, 1947 (Multi-Agency Artifact Vetting, Operation Mogul Reference, Major Hopkins Air Force Liaison, Hoax Classification Protocol) LOW FBI
  23. 23 1967-06-08 Paul L. Peyerl 1944 German WWII Saucer-Shaped Aircraft, June 1967 Miami Office Report MEDIUM FBI