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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.
“United Press”17 pages
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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