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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.
“United Press”17 pages
• ' •. r .· ,, that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer had received from the Fire Chief at Harbor, Washington, to the effect that Dahl had some flying disc fragments. At this time Dahl admitted to Vogel that the entire story was f alse . Relative to Arnold, Dahl and Chrisman stated that he was paid by Ray Palmer of the Fantasy magazine and possiblf the Boise 'statesman' to come to Tacoma and obtain a story from t hem regarding the flying disc fragments. On July 31 and August l , a total of five anonymous calls were received by a Tacoma Times reporter and the United Press Wireman at Tacoma giving information regarding t he meeting at the Winthrop Hotel over the disc fragments and stating that the B-25 had been shot down or sabotaged which killed Captain Davidson and Lieutenant Brown, inferring that t his was done because the intelligence officers were carrying disc fragments in their plane . Dahl and Chrisman stated that these calls could only have come from themselves, Arnold or Smith, wi10 , they stated, had a friend on the Chicago Times and was possibly selling the story to the Chicago Times through this friend . Dahl and Chrisman denied ma:o.ng these calls. Smith, upon interview, stated that reporter Iantz of the Tacoma Times and Morello of the United Press office in Tacoma had informed him that Arnold had several anonymous calls and from the accuracy of the information transmitted Smith believes they wer e made by either Dahl or Chrisman. - 2 -
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