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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
• • ... Director, FBI Re : FLYING DISCS September 20, 1947 The article went on to state that it was believed at the time that there was some correlation between the flying disc and the kurray Island explosion, and that RAYl'OND PAU:'.ER, Chicago magazine editor, had employed APJfOLD to investi gate and 11 cover 11 the 1!urray Island explosion. The articl e went on to state that on August 1, 1947 , at Tacoma, Washington, there was a conference among officials of the Army and Navy, who discussed the possible relation between the i;urray Island explosion and the appearance of flying discs . ARNOLD was supposed to have been in attendance at this conference . At the conference, authorities br ought samples of a lava oxide metal, allegedly taken from the scene of the ~urray Island expl osion. 'lhe article stated that following the conference, two pilots left by plane for Hamilton F'ield, California , carr ying samples of the lava oxide metal . The article further reported that the plane crashed near Hamilton Field, California, and it w·as conjectured that the plane had exploded by reason of the combustion of the lava oxide metal it carried. From the above ne,vspaper article, it should be noted that RAYLOND PAIJ.lER., SHAVEF 1s employer, was from the start 11 exploiting11 the appearance of the flying dis cs , possibly to enhance the appeal of SHA.VER 's stories . It is possible , therefore, that the entire flying disc theory was conceived by PAI.MER and SHAVE't . OAG: lab 100-18999 - 2 -
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.