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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 Memorandum • uNITEn sTATEs GovERNMENT
TO : DIRECTOR DATE: 9-15-4 7
//,.~ K-1- r.I"~ FROM : SAC San Francisco
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SUBJECT: REPORTS olir.nn G DISCS
Reference is made to my letter dated August 26, 1947. Enclosed is
a copy of a letter dated September 9 , 1947 from Lt. Colonel DONALD L. SPRE:-GER ,
of A2, with a memorandum prepared by BRYDEN E. MOON , 4th Air Force CIC on
AU§Ust 20, 1947 and August 26, 1947. The memorandum contains information
regarding observations of RAY A. SWITZER of Sacramento , California.
Also enclosed is a letter dated September 10, 1947 from Colonel
SPR l uGER with attac".ment dated September 9 , 1947 •
For the i nformation of the Bureau, KEllNETH ARNOLD of Boise, Idaho,
who has been repeatedly interviewed in this matt er by A2, has expressed his
intention to A2, of selling for publ ication his detailed account of hi s
investigation of flying discs.
62- 2938
DWK.
REOOBDED
3 CT2 1947

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