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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. 137 …He advised that he v:oulcl be :!;lad to answer any further inquiries and will cooperate…
  • p. 159 …This letter is entitled "Cooperation of FBI with A.AF on Investigations of 'Flying Disc' Incidents…
  • p. 161 …It is requested that each A-2 informally coordinate and cooperate with the FBI, generally keeping…
  • p. 181 …SMITH, Assistant Chief of Staff - Intelligence, Headquarters Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York, concerning "Cooperation…
  • p. 184 …It is requested that each A-2 informally coordinate and cooperate with the FBI, generally keeping…
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/421 TI 3d Avenue
Spokane, fiashington
Augus"t 8, 1947
Miliwry Intelligence Ill.vision, u.s.A.
l!cChord Field, l'fo.shington
Gentlemen:
FollO?ring the reading of an account or the visit af Er. Kcn:roth
Arnold, Boise, lcbho, as published in the Spo1'"..csman Revlon under date
o:r Au'"'-ust 7, 1947, tho undel:3igned considered the enclosed accou.."lt of
an obscrv:1tion or a 11flying saucor11 would be or interest to you.
Thi:J account has not been given to any neWSIXlper or oliher putlica
tion us yet .
Yours tru~,
/s/ R. J . l.adden
R. J . MADDEN
Division Plant Mgr.
The Pac. Tel. & Tel. Co .

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