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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…
VENTURE PRESS
305 S TUDIO BUILDING
1718 S H ERMAN AVENU E
E VANSTON, ILLINOI B
Au&1t 5. 1947
!Ar. Kenneth Arnold.
Box 387,
Boise~ Idaho
Dear Mr . .\rnold:
It seems that Mr. Maurice Roddy of the Chicago Times got the
atory from Mr. Sir.1th, because he oslled me, told me he was
running it. I knew only 'What you'd told me over the phone.
Now, it seems the newspapers a.re pestering th~ very devil out
of all ycu fellows. cr1sma.n wired me for inst1uotions. and I
told him to cay nothing tb the newspapers, because he'll look
silly if the army explains th1~ as •meteors~ or something like
that.
I don't blame you for being alarmed, but I trust you've had no
trouble i n your flying since then. Let's get that straight-
there 's no horrible plot 1n#olved. It's probably true that the
t\llO m the people of Amerioa, if not the 110rld. Antl no
censorship of the matter is logal. You needn't fee.r that angle.
You certainly did a bang-up job of investignt1ont also you wrote
one of the best article a about your aune 24 experience I 've ever
seen. Piease do the same on t his last business. Yuu On it to
those two men 1rho were killed.
I 'd also like to know what developed on those pictures you took
of those ndacks", or whatever they were.

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