# 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…

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[Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)Evidence

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.

Supported0

## What it means

Key question[Why is the Air Force's record of the Hackensack sighting so much thinner than the FBI's?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/questions/QST0DFY73YQ65H3/why-is-the-air-forces-record-of-the-hackensack-sighting-so)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** was No evidence yet

Answer this evidence bears on[The Air Force received only the FBI's two-line teletype](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/answers/ANS0DFY7J79XBAR/the-air-force-received-only-the-fbis-two-line-teletype)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

What it implies
1.

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?

1.

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

[On: Why is the Air Force's record of the Hackensack sighting so much thinner than the FBI's?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/questions/QST0DFY73YQ65H3/why-is-the-air-forces-record-of-the-hackensack-sighting-so)Set by this evidence

**12** score

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

[On: Why is the Air Force's record of the Hackensack sighting so much thinner than the FBI's?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/questions/QST0DFY73YQ65H3/why-is-the-air-forces-record-of-the-hackensack-sighting-so)

**12** score

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](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3NCT8C5M/check-list-unidentified-flying-objects-incidents-1100-38)

Air Materiel Command 1948

SRC

[Location: Hackensack, New Jersey – Date: August 1947 – Incident Number: 88 (Project Blue Book case file)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3MDQGA59/location-hackensack-new-jersey-date-august-1947-incident)

U.S. Air Force 1947

SRC

[SAC Newark to Director, FBI: Flying disc reported at Hackensack, New Jersey, August 3, 1947 – Miscellaneous (FBI file 62-HQ-83894, Section 2)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3NXV9HJ2/sac-newark-to-director-fbi-flying-disc-reported-at)

Federal Bureau of Investigation 1947

SRC

[Teletype, SAC Newark to Director: Flying disc reported at Hackensack, NJ, August three, 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3NNGPV7K/teletype-sac-newark-to-director-flying-disc-reported-at)

Federal Bureau of Investigation 1947

SRC

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[Session 1](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/sessions/SES0DFY9WVPW4NG/session-1-incident-88-opened-the-three-files-untangled-and) · 3 Nov 2026

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