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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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'Saucer' Seen ~lying Down Snak.e Gorge (From Pa,:o Ono) river facing toward the north. The boys saw it coming about ha!! a. mile up the canyon, and we all lost sight of it in less than a mile." While the impression was still vivid in their minds, the three got together and made rough sketches of what they had seen. These, in turn, were the basis for the artist's conception of the strange affair by Vic Goertzen of Twin Falls for the Times-News. "It was all one color-sort of a light sky blue with a red, tubular ~fiery ~low a.t the side of the top or ' hood," Urie continued. ··'.1he canyon floor is rough at hat '1)articular point, and it rode up and down over the hills and hol lov.s at a speed indicating some typi:. of control faster than the reflexes of man. It Is my opinion that it is guided by instruments and must be powered by atomic energy, as it made very little noise-just a s-w-i-s-h as It passed by." Urie described. the size as about 20 feet long by 10 feet high and 10 feet wide, giving lt an oblong shape. It might be described as look ing like an inverted pie-plate or broad-brimmed straw hat that had been compressed from two sides. Pressed for his candid opinion of just what it was, Urie said that he was convinced that there was some thing to this flying saucer situation. "I know a number of the people who have also seen them and I know that they're not just imagining something or trying to get their names in the paper," Urie com mented. "I do know that it scared the boys and made me feel pretty uneasy," he added. Tracing down a rumor that County Commissioner Hawkins had seen an unusual object in the air on the same day as Urie's experience, the Times-News called him at his Filer home. "Yes, I did," he replied without hesitation. "I'll have to admit I've been skeptical all along until I saw it with my own eyes. I can't say what It was, but I can say there's something in the air." Hawkins related that while at Salmon dam Wednesday morning, a sound resembling the echo of a motor caused him to look upward, and there he saw two circular ob jects that reflected light. They were traveling at a great speed and hlgh,;,r than most airplanes, accord 'ng t.o Hawkins. Aslde from this, he declined to add d'etails, except Lo say, ''There's something in the air." His general description, however, corresponded closely to those of hundreds of persons who reported seeing flying saucers after Kenneth Arnold, Boise businessman, had touched off the deluge by telling of coming upon nine disc-like objects whlle he was flying in his private plane in Washington. Thereafter, the nation became in creasingly flying saucer conscious, creating a state of mind that made It possible for four 'teen age Twin Falls boys to cause a mild sensa tion when they built a model flying disc and tossed into a. local yard July 10. This was subseuently re vealed as a. hoax, following investi gation by the anny and FBI. Thereafter the saucer reports tapered off Into a few scattered in cidents until the question was re vived by this week's occurrences. Speculation has ranged from mention that the discs could be army or naVY guided missile experi ments, or that they could be similar experiments by some foreign coun try, to "something out of this world." Whatever, they are, a lot of people have seen "something."
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 190 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.