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This section of FBI file 62-HQ-83894 on flying discs collects 1947 FBI memoranda, teletypes and Army Air Forces intelligence papers. It includes F. M. Johnson's report of discs near Mt. Adams on June 24, 1947, the Maury Island claims of Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman, the fatal B-25 crash at Kelso, Washington that killed investigators Davidson and Brown, MIT findings that New Hampshire fragments were ordinary cast iron, and A. C. Urie's Twin Falls sighting. It ends with the Bureau discontinuing its disc investigations.
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dot c nt t t n plane had beon Hetl to oraeh nd burn thirtoOl'l (la) Jll.11••
ou1:h or JCEL30 1 aab1n ton (4608 ••• 12.20f115' )-
~. Acrron TAKE
•• l J.~ 4?. At 04,&0 't, AUS r•oeind 1ni'o t1on rrc-o IMT. o.
c. Cl rk, loo 1 ah ritt nt &&LOO, •h•, thAt tho acono or tho crcoh llfll8 '
t1f'toon \16) to i; nty (to) dloe •••t ot .KELSO in the Yiclnity ct OO"aLE
OREEX . Th• tmLS0 CM.of' or olloo .,~ an ai:ror'ft!'v .'.t"ly low ovor tho tomi,
th n omah ruid but'll to out. ~• ~lc:• .,,.,., abo\.lt 02$0 P..,i". A ohook of
1.ror tt knOYn to 'bo in tho v1.o1ll1ty r•.-•d•cl -thllt -20 151G hnd dopartod
JICCHO'RD FIRU) e.t 0211 PS! tc.;r IL\.mL!O! PIELD, iCalifornS.e. . fhe woo.tnor •
ol"tod aa CFR. A .full t)OO -.da vbibiltt.y •x~pUonally • od.. •
pilot •• l1llDe waa C.&.t>T. ,. C. lllVIDSOl'a the pl1uw ca.rrled threo ($) additionfll
por on■• !ha Saae Qi,el"a.tione Ott1oor encl llaa• PIO .-r• notU'1 4. Thie
detac nt began orsanlaing • ground party or baae pol"aonn~l to eupplo nt
t.hat 'h4t1ng ronwd by the EtsO Chiet ot Polioe. .At OoOO PS! intor.ution
• ~ec iT•d troa Ill.SO by APS that groun4 fog in tho Y&lloye at th• aoen•
of tl10 orath n• pro"' Dti~ uound p&l"ty fNa 1ooat1n the plane. .Since
~o co=mm.cation had b•on recalYOd trom 8•25 lSlG, it wa• aaawc.d that i~
c tht plcno reported •• ora hod . AllS C-'-7 n.1 pre-tlichted. to 'lranapo1·1I
the Arn:, ground p0rty to REL-SO but a obeok 01' the field condl ion• there
4 me4 lt c4'rioablo to u a e 11•~ airorart. or th• two C-45e available.
on longing to AFS • unaor•1ced at er a night tli{thts th othor, belonc•
inr; 'to MC&. •• :re dled •••n though o ro11pondhl• otricer ot hnt ort•n•
h&tion • riot p1••••nt to authorhe the fU.&ht. F'o~ at K LSO pr•••n1.ed
t • -off until 0100 PST. The gound ~y. led by CI\Pi'. • I,. Ll!'IRELL und
CA?~. T. B. FOR6BEn~ . conaiotod or au ~n 1nc1ud1n& a dic,al technician
e.nd a photographer . At 0600 PST" tho UO Chlcr of Polio :not1f1 d PS
t a p 110n or or tho crci1h d rplano • a in hi• ott1oe nd d oont ncod
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