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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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• COPY SOME LIFE DAT.A ON KENNETH PRNOLD I was bor n March 29 • 1915 in Subeka. Minnesote. . ~y father ' s name vras Edward Erb Arnold; my mother t s maiden name was Bertha E. Barden. I was a resident of Minnesota until· I was six years old when my family moved to Scobey. Montana. where they home• steaded . My grandfather, Role.nd C. Arnol d also homesteaded in Scobey. Montana , and became quite prominent in political circles al ong with Burton K . Viheel er , the famous Montana senator. I went to grade school and high school at Minot, North Dakota . I enter ed scouting at twelve years of age and achieved the rank of Eagle scout before I was fourteen. My former scout executive was H. H. Prescott, now a regi onal commissioner for the Boy Scouts in Kansas City, Kansas . >s a boy, l was inter ested in athletics and was sel ected as an all- state end in 1932 and 1933 in the state of Worth Dakota . I entered the U. S. Olympic trials in fancy diving in 1932 ; I was a Red Cross Life Saving Examiner during the years of 1932 , ' 33 and 1 34. I taught swimmin~ and diving at scout camps and the municipal pool in Minot, North Dakota. I went to the University of Minnesota, where I swam and did fancy diving under Neil s Thorpe, and also played footbal l under Bernie Bierman, but upon entering college I was unable to continue my footbal l career because of an injured knee. My high school foot bal l coach was Glenn L. Jarrett , who is now the head football coach of the University of North Dakota. I had little or no finances, and my ambition in furthering my education in college
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.