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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. 3 …TO: Special Agent in Char~e, FBI, U. s. Depart.ment of Juitioe, Federal Office Building…
  • p. 41 …At this time CRISI:AN asked if the .3eattle Office was investigation the crash of the…
  • p. 43 …offices of the Seattle Post Intelligencer where both were being interviewed concerning their sighting of flying…
  • p. 49 …contrary, instant investigation is considered closed by this office . For the infonnation of the Bureau, Captain…
  • p. 95 …to the Seattle Office . • JEJ:FPMc Encs . (RE~ISTERED) AIR 'f~IL SPECIAL DELIVERY cc - ~eattle / .,.
  • p. 159 …The results of the investigation conducted by the Bureau Field Offices in this matter have failed…
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Mr. and Mrs . NO~h Loran, Jtah , advised that they viewed flying
objects travelTiii clockwise above the city at annrox imately l0 : 30 p .m. the evening
of Sente~ber 8, 1947. They infor med that they first believed the objeots to be
liP-hts of e.n airrylane . However, these objects seemed to chane:e in for.nati on and
aooeared to be similar to a gr oup of moving stars.
Mr. and Mrs . HALL believed these objects were traveling much faster than
\birds.
It was determined that Mr . and Mrs . H. P . Ai-mERSON and Mrs. BESSIE
HFNDRICKS were not available for interview:
Captain B. E. NAS')N, Military IntelliP-ence Division , Fort Do•..tglas,
Salt Lake City, Utah, is beinr advised by letter of the res~lts of this
investi P-ation.
In view of the indefinite information fur nished relacive to this matter,
no further investiP-ation is being conducted by this office .
SMK: L~S
AMSD

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