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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. 4 …I cun say am a prospeotor and was in the lit Adams distriot on June 24th…
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Authority:
NNO 90986
EEAJr.LUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE
Office 0£ tho Assi:;tan't Chief of Sta.i'f, A-2
!ntelli£er..ce
Ilamilton Field, California .
4AFDA. 26 Aucust 1947
SUl3.JECT: Flyini;; Di so •
TO: Special Agent in Char~e, FBI, U. s. Depart.ment of Juitioe,
Federal Office Building, Room 422, San Francisco, Calif.
l. The attached true copy of a letter from 'r. F. M. Johnson
wae reoeived by thie officer 22 A~guat 1947.
2. Your attention is invited to the similarity between Arnold's
early report and this ~entleman'a report. A possibility exists that
Mr. Johnson might have read aome or this· 1n the newspapers when Arnold
was publ1cizod re this ma~tor.
3. Thia headquarters doos not intend to investigate ~his incident .
It is requested that a roeult or nny in~erview you may make be furnished
this ~eadquarters.
'J. DONALD L-. SPRIJIGER
1 lnolt (dup) ~ Lt. Colonel, GSC
Ltr fr i;- . ·•• Johnson AC of S,' A-2
(True Cy)
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