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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…
•PORTLAND, OREGON, August 2oth l9t7
Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer . Aasietant Starr
Sir . Saw in the portland pnper a short time ago in rogards to
an artiol e 1n recards to tho so called f l ying diso having nny basi s
of £not . I cun say am a prospeotor and was in the lit Adams distriot
on June 24th the day K.:?,nne*kmol d of Boise Idaho claiMB he saw a
~Orl!!Ction of flyinG dtso. A nd 1 saw the samo f l yin& objeots at about
the :st:une 'time. Ihviu; r.. telot;c:>pe with rt'!t at tho +.:.mo i onn e.sure you
they are r~~l nnd notin~ lil=o tho~ I ovur 3aw before ~hoy did not pass
verry hir,h over whore l ,..-a.o ato.nding a.t the tho tii:no. ,?lobly 1000 .rt .
thoy rtero Round abo~t 30 root in dime.tor tapering sharply ton point in
tho bN1d end in en OVC'.l :lhnpo. with u brit;h"G top aur:!'acQ. ! did not
heor any noiao U3 :rou would ~on a plane. But ther~ was an object in
the tail end looked like c. 6115 hanu or a block shi.f'ting !'ro:::i side to
side like a big magen~t. Thero spoed as rar as i know seoced to be
ereater than anythint I ever saw. Lost veir, I got or tho objeots they
vere standing on edge 13&.rtkin~ in a Cloud.
Yours Respectfully
/s/ F. M. Johnson
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Lt . Colonel,
AC 0£ S, A- 2
L\. Urt
106 No . West 1st Ave
Portland. Oregon
CONFIDENTIAL

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