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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.
“United Press”17 pages
• • ... Director, FBI Re : FLYING DISCS September 20, 1947 The article went on to state that it was believed at the time that there was some correlation between the flying disc and the kurray Island explosion, and that RAYl'OND PAU:'.ER, Chicago magazine editor, had employed APJfOLD to investi gate and 11 cover 11 the 1!urray Island explosion. The articl e went on to state that on August 1, 1947 , at Tacoma, Washington, there was a conference among officials of the Army and Navy, who discussed the possible relation between the i;urray Island explosion and the appearance of flying discs . ARNOLD was supposed to have been in attendance at this conference . At the conference, authorities br ought samples of a lava oxide metal, allegedly taken from the scene of the ~urray Island expl osion. 'lhe article stated that following the conference, two pilots left by plane for Hamilton F'ield, California , carr ying samples of the lava oxide metal . The article further reported that the plane crashed near Hamilton Field, California, and it w·as conjectured that the plane had exploded by reason of the combustion of the lava oxide metal it carried. From the above ne,vspaper article, it should be noted that RAYLOND PAIJ.lER., SHAVEF 1s employer, was from the start 11 exploiting11 the appearance of the flying dis cs , possibly to enhance the appeal of SHA.VER 's stories . It is possible , therefore, that the entire flying disc theory was conceived by PAI.MER and SHAVE't . OAG: lab 100-18999 - 2 -
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