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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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  • 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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