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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.
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• •• '\ August 27, 1947 n:lrector , FBI Re : Flying Discs - Tacoma, "n . 1947, however , when Cr ISMA.N was approached in this regard, and they had gone to the boat house v-.here CHRIS !Al kPot his boat, CHRISMAN could not seem to make the boat run, nr-d after m4kitg some excuses that he hnd to rettrn to his office, had stated that he woula return in a.bout an hour, and by thet time his mechanic should have tre boat repaired and they could all proceed to Wsuri Island . r . 'QNOL informed that CHRIS' never returned, end thrt they were unable to locate CHRISllA at any of the telephone numbers he had ~iven them. They located inAEL in a movie, accord'ng to AR 'OLD, and that DAHL, after making so~e efforts to locate C~IS , ,~d informed them the.t CHRIS' h~~ le't town for a few days . He furt ,er inforned that about this time the oress contacted them and told them an inform~nt had called and told them +hRt 1~' ~son his way to Alaska ir an Army pl ane . r . ~ OLD advised tt- 11 t Captain S T"' had informed him thtsoever vlth the :!oise StatesmPn . He stated that the Boise Statesman has never p-id him for any information he has given them . He i nfonned that he sincerely believes that the Boise Stites'"' n is attemptin@, as ha is , to get to the bottom o~ tle flying discs story . 1T . AM'OLD stated thqt he has told the above story to Army Intelli ence a d 11\jor SA1 DERS ar. to no one else , w 1th the exception of SA JET~., . DAVE JOIDSOO , Boise Statesman, loise , Idaho, advised.that the Boise Statesman has never paid r . AR OLD for any news item he has given them, and has never approached him in this ,nanner . lie stated that the Boise Statesman is riot attempting to push t.~e flying discs story , but Ill':?rely attempting to - 5-
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