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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.
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• •Office Nlemoranaum • uNrTEn sTATEs Gov hRNMENT TO Director• FBI DATE : September 27, 1947 ~~c. Butte SUBJECT: FLYING DISCS SIGHTED MAY 51 19471 BE'ffl'EEN EL!EllSBURG AND SEATTIE. WASHINGTON We.rd.en JOmt"HENRY. Montana State Prison, Door Lodgo, Montana., has advised the writer that while driving between Ellensburg and Seattle, Washing• ton, about 3:30 P.M., on May 61 1947, ha sighted a silver object streaking aoross the sky. This was also seen by MELBOURlTE J.t<lfILL. con-net chauffeur, and Yrs. HElffiY• This objeot wont into a nose dive and they thought it would crash. However, before reaching the earth it disintegrated, leaving a long pillar of 1'gas" hanging in the sky. It was partioularly odd ·oecause this re mained in form and did not blOW' uwo.y. It was observed by these three people while they drove from twenty to thirty miles. )i ~ ..- ~ This smoky, gaseous pillar was a long ways ofr'imtt"Yema'i'n'ea:J.ligh 'v11i..,,/' in the air. Warden HERRY said that this silver object was traveling at an / !' exoassively high rate of speed and when it disintegrated it was atill a long ~y f rO!:l the earth. Warden HENRY said when he .first sa.w it he thought it was probably a jet propelled plane but that he ·couldn't tell except that its mo- tions were erratio. Ho said ha had not reported it tmtil he had noticod so mu.ch in the papers about these discs. Although thre~ people saw it, they de- cided tha.t they must be "seeing things"• The Seattle Office is requested to advise Mr. H. R. PETERSON, 4th Air Foroe, s-2, McChord Field, Washington. No further action is being ta.ken by the Butte Office due to the time elapsing between the sighting of this object ..an~1.~ report. - c~ WGB:LB cc - Seattlo I
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