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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. 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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OFLYING DISCS. ON INSTANT l.lM£•nxx DATE,
COMMISSIONER AND EX SHERIFF, TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, AND
BROWN, IDAHO STATE WAREHOUSE INSPECTOR, SAME COMMUNITY, ADVISED
THAT ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST THIRTEEN LAST, AT APPROXIMATELY
NINE THIRTY AM WHILE FISHING IN RIVER APPROXIMATELY FORTY MILES
SOUTHWEST OF TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, IN ISOLATED COUNTRY, THEY SAW
TWO OBJECTS FLYING THROUGH AIR AT GREAT HEIGHT, WHICH kl!ftttrtXXX
APPEARED TO BE DISCS, AND AT SAME TIME HEARD ROAR SIMILAR TO NOISE
CREATED BY MOTOR TRUCK. INFORMANTS ADVISED OBJECTS MOVING VERY
RAPIDLY THAT THEY EACH APPEARED TO BE APPROXIMATELY SIX
FEET IN DIAMETER. OBJECTS QUICKLY DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT AND HAVE
NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE• NO FURTHER DESC~ THESE OBJECTS PRESENTLY
AVAILABLE . FURTHER INVESTIGATION .i CONDUCTED BY THIS DIVISION
PURSUANT TO BUREAU BULLETIN Jt(l~TY TWO, SUB DIVISION B, DATED
JULY THIRTY NINETEEN !~~~~~N. BUR}AU WILL BE PROMPTLY INFORMED
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