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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.

  • p. 3 …Thia headquarters doos not intend to investigate ~his incident . It is requested that a roeult or…
  • p. 9 HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORC~ Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff. A-2 Intollic;enco Hnnilton…
  • p. 49 …from an individual at Army Air Forces Headquarters at ,;ashington, D. C. , during wh.ich call…
  • p. 87 …the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Headquarters, re quested that one WILLIA»-fmOADS of Phoenix…
  • p. 150 …the Office of the Director of Intelligence, headquarters Alaskan Departnent, at 1''ort Richardson, Alaska, that…
  • p. 159 …Smith, Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence, Headquarters, Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York, and is…
  • p. 161 …C 0 p y HEADQUARTERS AIR DEFENSE COW.AND Mitchel li i eld, New York In…
  • p. 181 …SMITH, Assistant Chief of Staff - Intelligence, Headquarters Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York, concerning "Cooperation…
  • p. 184 ... -·- •' • C O P Y HEADQUARTERS AIR DEFENSE COMMAND !(itchel l<'ield, New York In reply refer…
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• Jo> nJ. for any pilot•
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··r oornco at Cheh.il.io, aa!lington, and t dbout tt:o o ' clock I 00k ot£
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bin,cton. 113' trip nao deJeyod i"or o.n hour to o~h f'or n larce r.iarim
-tr:.YlSport that ou~scdly ,.ant do..n ne:ir or oroim:l tho oout.lroest Cide o£
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I fl.cr.7 Mroctly to, ::?.rd • Raimor :artcr roo.chiJm 11 t.itudo of
o.bOut 9 , 500 foot, ffllich io We pproxiroto olOVQ.tion of tho bieh pla.tob.u
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i.o the nos~, 8:lrebinz all or thO v rious riQ.!!On for this- ~..no e..lu.p
end nm1 to :lt dm7a mid r.car tho ~ sido or tho eapyon Jihor.c
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360 JrOO turn to t rlcht and abovo th3 llttlo ci y of tli.nor.:U.., a•--•--
11\1 ~ to d llt. Iloinier. I cl:i.tlbcd b ck up to an altit;11cle of
o.pprox1mtoly 9, 200 foot.
'ibe nir oo D!JOOtb tho.t dcy that it a. roal pl sure~
mid, 23 mo t ~t~ ~ t ~ tl~ y 01•3 ~z o.t a
r,tor altitude, I ~u~ .in t.11!direct.ion of Ynkinn,

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