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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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HE AS HE • PAGE TWO TRAVELI NG AT LEAST THREE TIMES FASTER THAN A PLAN . BRUMMETT ADDED THAT WATCHED THE OBJECTS FROM FI VE TO EIGHT SECONDS AT WHI CH TIME THEY DISAPPEARED FROM SIGHT. ACCORDING TO BRUMMETT THE OBJECTS WERE DESCRIBED BEING NOISELESS, HAVI NG NO WINGS OR TAIL , LIGHTER THAN ALUMINUM, TAPERED AT BOTH ENDS AND ONE STAYED A LITTLE BEHIND AND A BIT ABOVE THE OTHER AND BOTH MAINTA I ND EQUAL RATES OF SPEED. FROM BRUMMETTS OBSERVATIO WAS UNABLE TO DECI DE WHETHER THE OBJECTS WERE FLAT OR ROUND . MRS MAMI~ LISH STATED THAT WHEN BRUMMETT CALLED HER ATENTION TO THE OBJECTS SHE TOOK A PASSI NG GLANCE AT THE SKY AND COULD OFFER NO DESCR I PTI ON OTHER THAN THEY LOOKED LIKE TWO SI LVER BALLS TRAVELING AT A FAST RATE OF SPEED . WILCOX END SHOLD PLS 9- 28 PM OK FBI WASH DC GAR
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.