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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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... BT 66-480 As the machine went by the URIE place. the trees over which it almost directly passed (Korman Poplars) did not just bend with the wind as if' a plane had gone by• but• in URIE•s worda• "11plD1 around on top as it they were in a vacuum.." KEI'l'H URIE• eight yea.rs of age. said he first saw the machine coming dc.Ml the canyon. heading from east to 11est and following the contours of the ground. BILLY• age ten. saw it almost imnediately. Both watched it .fly out of' sight behind a tree in a matter of' momenta• They said they then ran to their Father and learned that he too had seen the machine• URIE seemed completely sincere about the inoiden-t. He said his wife and daughter ware in the house at the time and had not seen the macbi.D&. He questioned his brother• who also live• in the canyon. but his brother bad been eating at the time and had seen nothing. URIE and his two boys maintained that they had never before seen one ot -the discs. URIE. when interviewed• ap peared to be a sober. m.dqle-E\ged man. JOHJrlmc)sNAU. the "Times Newa" reporter who originally .t'urnished Special Agents with information about the incident• likewise stated that URIE appeared cmpletely sincere about the machine. ,....., ,, Ho f'urther attempt -was made to locate L. w. HAWKINS, inasmuch as J. H. BROWN• who was with HAWKINS at the tilll3• was intervi8?i8de BROffll's ~ was withheld trc:m the newspaper because HAWKINS and BROWN -were fishing at Sal• m.on dam while BROWN was supposed to have been workit1g in Twin Falls. BROWN said simply that be and HAWKINS could bear a roar. They looked up and could see two instr\lDBnta flying at a great height. which BROWN mentioned might have been between four thousand and six thousand feet. However. he said he had no idea how large the devioes ware and consequently• they ma.y have been several miles away. He said tlat he and HAWKINS were satisfied they had seen aouething and they were very doubtful that they had seen two planes. RJGaFo•s Eno. (2)
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