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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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25 August 1947
Authority:F.lying Saucer. NND 90986
i'O: Co:mnanding General
A?'i!tY' 11:r Forces
'fash1n, connection With the so-called •PlT,1113 Saucer• or •1)1.ec•. These
specimens, thel"'Gfore, are ca:ieidored as part ot a hou that oould be per
petrated by most. m17011e seeking pnbl.icity er for any other reasom,.
3. The specimens man. in tbs attached photograph include trae
ments ot an 1mdetermi.nable sbape made trca. plaster ot parie :0r sim1lar
ceruic am1 containing soi:.e electrical resistance wire far meawrement
or heating purposes. The conditicn of the cerr.mic indicates that tbs
resistance m..re was heated electricall;r at. one t.ime or another. i'h!se
tragmsnta coold not be connected 1'1,th aD.Y A!£ project. The other articles
at too top of the photograph reading trm left to right are 1d~tifas
toUOWB: • ~
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a. An out.oded type of magnetic .speaker diapbraga • e>t almll
inWI alloy, IL8I1U.facturec! bf The Nathaniel Baldrin CcmipaJ1Y ot Sslt tab
City, !Jtab, which was .f'irst petented ~ 1, 191v. This article cannot be
connected ntb mq AJ&C project..
b. The secO!ld md t.~n:1 articles .a.re bakelite coil .forms
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