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FBI file 62-HQ-83894 Flying Discs, section 3

Department of War · 2026-05-08 · 190 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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In short. I'd like to have you continue to aeep in oontaot
with me, and relay to me anyth1r.g furt!l'! r you learn.
In turn, I'll give you the whole story, 'Which I 'm just about
ready to break (not in the newspa:;ers). And ir it was as
dangerous as _you seem to suspect , I ' o afraid I ' d have been
a oorpsa long agoJ
But . and this is all you need remember. those disks ar o not
red oorpusoles in 1our eyec~11 1 and they are not something
we can forget about nth an ostrich in the sand attitude.
ie•ve got to solve them , publio hysteria or no. AR for that
hysteria~ if laughing is hysteria. that ' s all the ~ysteria
I've noticed :
By all means, I want to thank you f or the Y.crk y ou •ve done.
You know :1ow- business , and you handled it like a major .
But I'm hoping /OU do the easy part now and get that report
on paper.
A oheok for your June 24 artiole is going out to you.
Sincerely yours,
R. A. Palmer
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