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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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COPY \ Incident 41.F 1208 I 16 July 1947 MEMORANDW FOR THE OFFICER IN CHARGE , 1. On 12 July 1947, Mr . Kenneth Arnold, Box 387, Boise, Ide.ho, was interviewed in regard to the report by Mr. Arnold that he saw 9 strange objects flying over the Cascede Mountain Range of Washington State on July 25th. Mr. Arnold voluntarily agreed to give the interviewer a written report of exactly what be had seen on the above mentioned date. The written report of Mr • .Arnold is attached to this report as Exhibit A. AGENT'S NOTES: Mr . P.rnold is a ma.n of 32 years of age, being married aid the father of two children. He is well thought of in the community in which he lives, being very much the family man end from all appearances a very good provider for his family. Mr. ~rnold has recently purchased a home on the outskirts of Boise. recently purchased a $5.000 airplane in which to conduct his business to the extent of which is explained in the attached exhibit. It is the personal opinion of the interviewer that Mr. ~rnold actually saw what he stated that he saw. It is difficult to believe that a man of' Mr. Arnold's character and apparent integrity would stete that he saw objects and write up a report to the extent that h~ did if he did not see them. To go further, if Mr. Arnold can write a report of the character that he did while not having seen the objects that he claimed he saw, it is the opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Arnol d is in the wrong business, that he should be writing Buok Rogers fiction. Mr . Arnold is very outspoken and somewhat bitter in his opinions of the leaders of the U.S. Army }~r Forces and the Federal Bureau of Investigati~n for not having made an investigation of this matter sooner. To put all of the statements made by Mr . Arnold in this report would make it a voluminous volune. However, after having checked an aeronautical map of the area over which Mr. Arnold claims that he saw the objects it_wes determined that all statements made by Mr. Arnold in regard to the distances involved, speed of the objects, course of the objects and size of the objects, could very possibly be facts. The distances mentioned by Mr. Arnold in his report are within a short distance of th~ actual distances on aeronautical charts of this area. although Mr . ~rnold has never consulted aeronautioal charts of the type the Army uses. Mr. Jrnold stated that this business had suffered greatly since his report on July 25 due to the fact that at every stop on his business routes, large crowds of people were waiting to question him as to just what he had seen. Mr. Arnold stated further that if' he, et any time in the future, sew anything in the $ky, to quote Mr. P.rnold directly, .,if I saw a ten story building FRANl< M. BROWN, S/A, CIC 4th AF
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