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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. 2 …SPRINGER of A-2, Hamilton Field, California. Even thoug)l Col. SPRINGER feels that Mr. JOHNSON…
  • p. 5 …SPRINGER of A-2, Hamilton Field, California, dated August 27, 1947, with attachment s reporting the…
  • p. 8 HEADQOARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office of the Aa•iatant Chier of Statf, A-2 Intelligenoe Hamilton…
  • p. 33 …According to them Arnold called in ar:ny intelligence officers from Hamilton Field, California and one…
  • p. 36 …the morning of August 1, 1947 to return to Hamilton Field, California for Air For ce…
  • p. 39 …25 was carrying disc fragments returning to Hamilton Field, California and furnishing the inference that the…
  • p. 40 …with Ar-my A~2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field and that the fragments were top secret…
  • p. 43 …On the same date called Lieutenant BRO~'N at 5800 Hamilton Field, Cali fornia, collect • .ARNOW…
  • p. 45 …Shortly afterward, Colonel GRF.GG called him from McCrord Field stating that Hamilton Field had requested…
  • p. 53 …Arnold had made a telephone call to Hamilton ?ield to contact a Captain Davidson and a…
  • p. 54 …Davidson wero going baok to Hamilton Field and that he would get in tQuoh with me…
  • p. 60 …M>RINGER, A-2, Fourth _Air Foroe, Hamilton Field, California, involving reported aightings ot flying ~ disoe…
  • p. 87 …Colonel DONALD SPRINGER, A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, advised that the Area Intelligence…
  • p. 92 …Captain DAVI~SON , Army intelligence officers at Hamilton Fiel d, and had asked them to come…
  • p. 149 …The article further reported that the plane crashed near Hamilton Field, California, and it w·as…
  • p. 159 …Springer, A-2, Ar-my Air Foroes, Hamilton Field, California, a copy of which is attached…
  • p. 181 …SPRINGER, A-2, Army Air Forces, Hamilton Field, California~ which letter is designated to certain Commanding…
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August ti, l<:14?
I:uffi<,L:) A. D.ri.HL and FRED C.rlL..........i... mal~e the follor;rng f'oluntary st teront
to ~J-1. L.-1.VID .,•• •..AC m.. LLtel. of the Feder 3.l Bureau 01· I nvestigation.
I c t he eii~' r ar t <.." J une l ~"'i' \ e 1icked up some strange rock f or;1iations
fro. a gravel pit on lli8ury I sland , 11ashington. ,1e sent a box (cigar )
of these fragments to RAY PAili.lER of Venture kagazine s t Evanston I llinois
to have it anal yzed.
Later P.AIMER wrote and asked for aduitional samples stating that he had
failed to have them analyzed.
Around the later purt of J une a few days aft er the first disc stories
start ed ~AIMER cont acted us by phone . He told us not to tell the news
papers a:iout the f r agments and he would pay for an exclusive story if
the fragments could be from a f l ying disc .
One of us tol d hi r the fragr.ients could have been from a flying disc.
Just after our phone conversati on HAROLD DAHL wrote a l etter to RAY
PALMER setting out some notes et c . regarding the fragments and
indi cating t hey coul d have come from flying discs.
The next thing we heard was about the fir st of J uly when v1e got a
Trans Ocean Press telegram from Chicago asking lmll:t about these flying
disc gragment s . We tol d them t o gor get t he entire mat ter.
The next we heard of these fragments was when we were called by
KENNETH ARNOLD to meet wt.th him in the Wint hr op Hotel on llluly 31 , 194?
We t ol d hin exactly how v;e had found the f r aements and had forwarded t hem
to FA.llll!R to be a nalyzed.
The above is the entire and true story as regards our connection with
the flying disc s t orie e etc . ·w riginated over the ore samples whi ch
we sent to be analyzed.
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