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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.
“Terry”1 page
I • In short. I'd like to have you continue to aeep in oontaot with me, and relay to me anyth1r.g furt!l'! r you learn. In turn, I'll give you the whole story, 'Which I 'm just about ready to break (not in the newspa:;ers). And ir it was as dangerous as _you seem to suspect , I ' o afraid I ' d have been a oorpsa long agoJ But . and this is all you need remember. those disks ar o not red oorpusoles in 1our eyec~11 1 and they are not something we can forget about nth an ostrich in the sand attitude. ie•ve got to solve them , publio hysteria or no. AR for that hysteria~ if laughing is hysteria. that ' s all the ~ysteria I've noticed : By all means, I want to thank you f or the Y.crk y ou •ve done. You know :1ow- business , and you handled it like a major . But I'm hoping /OU do the easy part now and get that report on paper. A oheok for your June 24 artiole is going out to you. Sincerely yours, R. A. Palmer -
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.