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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 003

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 190 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 129 …Sublett, Almo, Bridge and all present unorganized terri tory. ' Funeral Held for Infant at Wendell WENDELL…
'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."

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