Evidence · Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947
The Air Force check-list repeats the FBI teletype and nothing from the interviews
The check-list remark for Incident 88 repeats the 4 August teletype almost word for word, and its fields for direction, duration, size, colour and shape are 'N/S', although the FBI's 13 August interviews give all five.
What it means
Key questionWhy is the Air Force's record of the Hackensack sighting so much thinner than the FBI's?
2 answers, none ahead yet
Openwas No evidence yet
Answer this evidence bears onThe Air Force received only the FBI's two-line teletype
Supports1 for, none against
Still possiblewas No evidence yet
What it implies
- The Air Force's analysts worked from the teletype alone.For the key question: Why is the Air Force's record of the Hackensack sighting so much thinner than the FBI's?
- Hynek's 'lack of evidence' verdict was a verdict on the Air Force file, not on the evidence that existed.For: What did the three witnesses see over Hackensack on the evening of 3 August 1947?
Next steps 2
1
Search AAF intelligence records for the 13 August FBI letter
Could decidePoor odds~8 h
12score
Details
Request or search the AC/AS-2 flying-disc correspondence and Project Sign administrative files at NARA for a copy or transmittal of the Newark letter. A copy dated before 1948 would show the Air Force had the interviews and did not use them; none would support the teletype-only reading.
2
AAF copy of the FBI's 13 August letter
Could decidePoor odds~8 h
12score
Details
Search AC/AS-2 and Project Sign records at NARA for a copy or transmittal of the Newark interviews.
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 4
Check-List – Unidentified Flying Objects, Incidents 1–100 (38_143685, box 7), PURSUE Release 01
SRCAir Materiel Command 1948
SRC
SAC Newark to Director, FBI: Flying disc reported at Hackensack, New Jersey, August 3, 1947 – Miscellaneous (FBI file 62-HQ-83894, Section 2)
SRCFederal Bureau of Investigation 1947
Teletype, SAC Newark to Director: Flying disc reported at Hackensack, NJ, August three, 1947
SRCFederal Bureau of Investigation 1947
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). The Air Force check-list repeats the FBI teletype and nothing from the interviews [Evidence EVD0DFY7XYZ2YY9]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DFY7XYZ2YY9
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