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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.
“United Press”17 pages
•\ I DISCS . I NTERNAL SCURITY-X. FBI SEATTLE 8-14- 47 5-21 PM /4RECTOR FBI URGENT L. R. BRUMMETT. SID'l}ECKER . ~ FLYING AUGUST FOURTEEN INllflffHXK NINETEEN FORTYSEVEN SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER PUBLISHED ARTICLE TO EFFECT THAT L. ~UMMETT, BOX TWO FIVE FOUR RED MOND, WASH, AND SIDNEY DECKER BOX TWO NINE SI X REDMOND, WASHINGTON HAD SIGHTED TWO DI SCS AT APPROXIMATELY NINE AM AUGUST THIRTEEN NINETEEN FORTYSEVEN . UPON INTERVIEW DECKER STATED THAT TWO VERY BRIGHT OJECTS '\ TRAVELING AT AN EXTREME RATE OF SPEED WERE NOTICED BY HIM AS H~WAS STANDING NEAR THE REDMOND POST OFFICE . DECKER DESCRIBED THE OBJECTS AS HAVING NO WINGS, NO TAIL, AND BOTH ENDS WERE TAPERED . DECKER ADDED THAT THE OBJECTS RESEMBLED A BELLY TANK AND THAT THEY WERE NOISELESS . THE OBJECTS WERE VERY BRIGHT AND TRAVELING IN A NORTHEASTERLY DIRECTION OVER REDMOND, WASHINGTON, ONE A BIT BEHIND AND A LITTLE ABOVE THE ◊,HER MAINTAINING EQUAL RA TES OF SPEED FOR APPROXIMATELY EIGHT SECONDS A1'rv-/ WHICH TIME THEY DI SAPPEARED FROM VIEW. DECKER ADDED THAT THEY WERE HIGHER THAN A PLANE GENERALLY TRAVELS. BRUMMETT ADVISED THAT HE NOTICED THE OBJECTS AND CALLED DECKERS ATTENTION TO THEM AND ALSO POINTED THEM OUT TO A MRS MAMIE ENGLISH . BRUMMETT STATED THAT HE SAW THO OBJECTS FLYING AT A FORTYFIVE DEGREE ANGLE NORTHEASTERLY OVER REDMOND t~ /Ir} ,V T.iIO'H00([8 I ..Y- L - ~ /f \ ~~ F ..J~ E71 ~~ . .,34 SEP~ 1941
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.