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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
~cf' dJ)t:4 &...I - 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. 1/~ If~~~~ r.4.£ ~~ifr~?
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