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FBI file 62-HQ-83894 Flying Discs, section 3

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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.

  • p. 3 …Thia headquarters doos not intend to investigate ~his incident . It is requested that a roeult or…
  • p. 9 HEADQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORC~ Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff. A-2 Intollic;enco Hnnilton…
  • p. 49 …from an individual at Army Air Forces Headquarters at ,;ashington, D. C. , during wh.ich call…
  • p. 87 …the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Headquarters, re quested that one WILLIA»-fmOADS of Phoenix…
  • p. 150 …the Office of the Director of Intelligence, headquarters Alaskan Departnent, at 1''ort Richardson, Alaska, that…
  • p. 159 …Smith, Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence, Headquarters, Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York, and is…
  • p. 161 …C 0 p y HEADQUARTERS AIR DEFENSE COW.AND Mitchel li i eld, New York In…
  • p. 181 …SMITH, Assistant Chief of Staff - Intelligence, Headquarters Air Defense Command, Mitchel Field, New York, concerning "Cooperation…
  • p. 184 ... -·- •' • C O P Y HEADQUARTERS AIR DEFENSE COMMAND !(itchel l<'ield, New York In reply refer…
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•Office. M emorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT·• cl
DATE:TO ~ - Director. FBI - AIR KAIL
FROM • SAC, San Fo cisco
SUBJECT: PORl'S OF FLYING DISCS
There are being tranamitted herewith to the Bureau photostatic oopies
of three reports received from Lieutenant Colonel DON.AI.,0,-M>RINGER, A-2, Fourth
_Air Foroe, Hamilton Field, California, involving reported aightings ot flying ~
disoe. ~ ,#
The Los Angeles Offioe is being furnished with a photostatio copy ot
the report ot Lieutenant Colonel SPRINGER dated August 18, 1947 concerning the 'l/
investigation conducted at the Muroo Flight Test Base, Jluroo, California.
The Butte Office ia being furnished with a photostatic copy ot the
report of Lieutenant Colonel SPRINGER dated August 20, 1947 which sets forth a
letter received from Mr. R. J4"'1tADDEN, Division Pl&.¢ Engineer, Paoif'io Telephone
and Telegraph Company, Helena, Montana.
Thia office ia maintaining contact with Lieutenant Colonel SPRINGER
and will furnish the Bu"au with a subsequent report from him concerning the ob
servations ot Mr. RAY A.,.ewlTZER, Sacramento, California• who has reported
certain observations wbiob he believes may involve a flying disc at Plaoen-ille,
California, on August 14, 1947.
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August 26, 1947
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