# Jazz Shaw · Person

> Journalist and contributing writer to The Debrief who wrote the only study of the Incident 88 folder. In Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/people/FIG0DFY5XKS0763/jazz-shaw  
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[Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)[People](https://mysteriesdept.com/people)Jazz Shaw

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# Jazz Shaw

Journalist and contributing writer to The Debrief who wrote the only study of the Incident 88 folder.

[Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)[1 event][2 sources]

Shaw's 2022 article in The Debrief described the mixed contents of the Incident 88 folder, identified the Wildwood correspondent, and filed FOIA requests with the Air Force and FBI [@shaw2022incident88]. He discussed the case on the Somewhere in the Skies podcast in 2023; the episode introduces him as the late Jazz Shaw on its 2026 re-release [@sits2023incident88].

## In the mysteries

**Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947**

Journalist and contributing writer to The Debrief who wrote the only study of the Incident 88 folder. · 1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)

[Did the Air Force investigate the Wildwood reports filed under Incident 88, and what came of it?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/questions/QST0DFY748NX8M2/did-the-air-force-investigate-the-wildwood-reports-filed)Open: 2 answers, none ahead

## What Jazz Shaw did 1

23 May 2022[Jazz Shaw's article on the Incident 88 folder appears in The Debrief](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/events/EVT0DFY6DYPMABJ/jazz-shaws-article-on-the-incident-88-folder-appears-in-the)

## Sources 2

[The Curious Case of Project Blue Book Incident 88](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3WTTD70Y/the-curious-case-of-project-blue-book-incident-88)

SRC

[The Curious Case of Project Blue Book "Incident 88" (Somewhere in the Skies, episode 303)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3X6B8TSA/the-curious-case-of-project-blue-book-incident-88-somewhere)

SRC

## Cite it

```
Mysteries Department. (2026). Jazz Shaw [Person FIG0DFY5XKS0763]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DFY5XKS0763
```

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