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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. 2 …SPRINGER of A-2, Hamilton Field, California. Even thoug)l Col. SPRINGER feels that Mr. JOHNSON…
  • p. 5 …SPRINGER of A-2, Hamilton Field, California, dated August 27, 1947, with attachment s reporting the…
  • p. 8 HEADQOARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office of the Aa•iatant Chier of Statf, A-2 Intelligenoe Hamilton…
  • p. 33 …According to them Arnold called in ar:ny intelligence officers from Hamilton Field, California and one…
  • p. 36 …the morning of August 1, 1947 to return to Hamilton Field, California for Air For ce…
  • p. 39 …25 was carrying disc fragments returning to Hamilton Field, California and furnishing the inference that the…
  • p. 40 …with Ar-my A~2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field and that the fragments were top secret…
  • p. 43 …On the same date called Lieutenant BRO~'N at 5800 Hamilton Field, Cali fornia, collect • .ARNOW…
  • p. 45 …Shortly afterward, Colonel GRF.GG called him from McCrord Field stating that Hamilton Field had requested…
  • p. 53 …Arnold had made a telephone call to Hamilton ?ield to contact a Captain Davidson and a…
  • p. 54 …Davidson wero going baok to Hamilton Field and that he would get in tQuoh with me…
  • p. 60 …M>RINGER, A-2, Fourth _Air Foroe, Hamilton Field, California, involving reported aightings ot flying ~ disoe…
  • p. 87 …Colonel DONALD SPRINGER, A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, advised that the Area Intelligence…
  • p. 92 …Captain DAVI~SON , Army intelligence officers at Hamilton Fiel d, and had asked them to come…
  • p. 149 …The article further reported that the plane crashed near Hamilton Field, California, and it w·as…
  • p. 159 …Springer, A-2, Ar-my Air Foroes, Hamilton Field, California, a copy of which is attached…
  • p. 181 …SPRINGER, A-2, Army Air Forces, Hamilton Field, California~ which letter is designated to certain Commanding…
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SOME LIFE DAT.A ON KENNETH PRNOLD
I was bor n March 29 • 1915 in Subeka. Minnesote. . ~y father ' s
name vras Edward Erb Arnold; my mother t s maiden name was Bertha
E. Barden. I was a resident of Minnesota until· I was six years
old when my family moved to Scobey. Montana. where they home•
steaded . My grandfather, Role.nd C. Arnol d also homesteaded in
Scobey. Montana , and became quite prominent in political circles
al ong with Burton K . Viheel er , the famous Montana senator.
I went to grade school and high school at Minot, North
Dakota . I enter ed scouting at twelve years of age and achieved
the rank of Eagle scout before I was fourteen. My former scout
executive was H. H. Prescott, now a regi onal commissioner for
the Boy Scouts in Kansas City, Kansas .
>s a boy, l was inter ested in athletics and was sel ected
as an all- state end in 1932 and 1933 in the state of Worth
Dakota . I entered the U. S. Olympic trials in fancy diving in
1932 ; I was a Red Cross Life Saving Examiner during the years
of 1932 , ' 33 and 1 34. I taught swimmin~ and diving at scout
camps and the municipal pool in Minot, North Dakota. I went
to the University of Minnesota, where I swam and did fancy
diving under Neil s Thorpe, and also played footbal l under Bernie
Bierman, but upon entering college I was unable to continue my
footbal l career because of an injured knee. My high school foot
bal l coach was Glenn L. Jarrett , who is now the head football
coach of the University of North Dakota. I had little or no
finances, and my ambition in furthering my education in college

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