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.

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“Ray Palmer”3 pages

p. 33 …They sent a cigar box of these formations to one Ray Palmer, editor of the Venture…
p. 34 …Relative to Arnold, Dahl and Chrisman stated that he was paid by Ray Palmer of the…
p. 51 …Just after our phone conversati on HAROLD DAHL wrote a l etter to RAY PALMER setting…

Signed vtatemert of Fred L. Crism and Harol . . Dahl
Re : FLYITG DISS SIGHTED BY FRED CRIS AN and ROLD . "J~HL
Tac oma, ashington
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The Maury Island Incident 1947

Cases discussed

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
similarity between Arnold's early report; Mt Adams June 24
Snake River Canyon Disc: The A.C. Urie Sighting 1947
A. C. Urie of Twin Falls, Idaho and two sons saw object August 13
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
FBI and AAF cooperation on 'flying disc' incidents, 1947

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