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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.
“Hamilton”17 pages
• • .,. August 27, 1947Director , FBI Re : Flying Discs - Tacoma, Wn . Mr . AR OLD stated he received a telephone call from the press upon returning to his hotel room, and that the press wanted to know about the flying disc fragments , and he told them that he was not talking until he had proved it. He stated he did not know how the press ever knew he wes in Tacoma. or had seen DAHL. Mr .· ARNOLU informed that at 9:30 A.M. the next morning , July 31, 1947, ~AHL and CHRIS}~\N appeared at his hotel room and nAHL again asked him to uo home and forget about the discs, that his story was not false , but that he had had enough trouble . DAHL said that his boy had been missed one morning a~d had been found at Lust, lfontana, waiting on tables in a cafe; that he did not know how he had got there and that too many things were happening . ~fr . AR\OLD stated that when l)Afil, and CHRIS,IAN came to his hotel room, they had an armful of fragments , and that CHRISWAN had then informed about how he had seen an object resembling those seen by DAHL. CHRISMA""1 stated he had talren the patrol boat on July 23 , 1947, and had gone to ¥8.uri Island and had found the beach littered with lava . CERIS'~N stated he had looked up and had seen a balloon- like object with port holes and windows , which had disappeared into a large cloud. ARNOLD stated that he asked DAHL again to see the pictures of the objects ; that llAHL had again agreed to show them to him. Mr . AR''OLfl informed that he had then asked ,Am, and CHRISt•AN if it would be all right for him to call a friend , Captain SMITH, who had also seen some flying discs and let him s~e the fragments and hear ur . DAHL ' s story . rAHL dissented, however , CHRISMAN readily agreed. He also stated that he had placed a call to Lieutenant BR0""1 ard Captain DAVI~SON , Army intelligence officers at Hamilton Fiel d, and had asked them to come to his hotel , as they had previously instructed him to report to them any thing of an unusual nature or of interest regardin~ the flying discs . He stated he flew to Seattle and got Captain Sl'ITH, and that Lieutenant ffP011N and Captain DAVIDSON had come to his room about 4:00 P. M. -~r. A.-q' OLD advised that he he.d asked Lieutenant BRO'lffl just what he had found out regarding the discs • and Lieutenant BRO,IN had confidentially informed him that they had obtained a picture of a disc , which appeared to be authentic, which picture was taken by a man in Phoenix , Arizona. The picture , according to Lieutenant BRO.~. was of a circular object with a hole in the center, and of another object that looked like a flying wing. He stated that when Lieutenant BRO:,'ft-T told him this that he immediately thought of the object seen by DAHL. He stated that after hearing DAHL' s story• Lieutenant Bl?0':1 ar d Captain DAVIflSON' s attitude had changed immediatel y, and that they appeared disinterested . It was then suggested that they all go to Ma.uri Island and look for the disc fragments. Lieutenant BRO,'(N and Captain DAVIDSON stated that they had to return to Hamil ton Field immediately . Mr . ARNOLD stated that Lieutenant BR011N and Captain AVIDSON were very careful to gather up all of the fragments which had been brought to the r oom by DAHL and CHRIS':Af-1 . - 3 - r
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