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This section of the FBI's 1947 flying disc file (62-HQ-83894) collects correspondence between FBI field offices and Army Air Forces intelligence. It includes a Portland prospector's claim to have seen disc objects near Mount Adams on June 24, 1947, an Air Force report on the August 1 crash near Kelso, Washington that killed investigators Davidson and Brown, and the Maury Island claims of Dahl and Crisman. Other items are an MIT analysis of cast iron fragments from New Hampshire, the A. C. Urie Twin Falls sighting, and the Bureau's decision to stop its disc investigations.
From the source: Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
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dot c nt t t n plane had beon Hetl to oraeh nd burn thirtoOl'l (la) Jll.11••
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t1f'toon \16) to i; nty (to) dloe •••t ot .KELSO in the Yiclnity ct OO"aLE
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por on■• !ha Saae Qi,el"a.tione Ott1oor encl llaa• PIO .-r• notU'1 4. Thie
detac nt began orsanlaing • ground party or baae pol"aonn~l to eupplo nt
t.hat 'h4t1ng ronwd by the EtsO Chiet ot Polioe. .At OoOO PS! intor.ution
• ~ec iT•d troa Ill.SO by APS that groun4 fog in tho Y&lloye at th• aoen•
of tl10 orath n• pro"' Dti~ uound p&l"ty fNa 1ooat1n the plane. .Since
~o co=mm.cation had b•on recalYOd trom 8•25 lSlG, it wa• aaawc.d that i~
c tht plcno reported •• ora hod . AllS C-'-7 n.1 pre-tlichted. to 'lranapo1·1I
the Arn:, ground p0rty to REL-SO but a obeok 01' the field condl ion• there
4 me4 lt c4'rioablo to u a e 11•~ airorart. or th• two C-45e available.
on longing to AFS • unaor•1ced at er a night tli{thts th othor, belonc•
inr; 'to MC&. •• :re dled •••n though o ro11pondhl• otricer ot hnt ort•n•
h&tion • riot p1••••nt to authorhe the fU.&ht. F'o~ at K LSO pr•••n1.ed
t • -off until 0100 PST. The gound ~y. led by CI\Pi'. • I,. Ll!'IRELL und
CA?~. T. B. FOR6BEn~ . conaiotod or au ~n 1nc1ud1n& a dic,al technician
e.nd a photographer . At 0600 PST" tho UO Chlcr of Polio :not1f1 d PS
t a p 110n or or tho crci1h d rplano • a in hi• ott1oe nd d oont ncod
CONFIDENTIAL Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 190 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.