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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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The Federal Bureau of Inftst1ga.t1on baa been requeated
by your oitice to aes1at in the 1nveatigat1on ot reportod. aipt-
inga of tl.ying di■oa. -
U, attention baa been called to 1Datruot1on• disseminated
by the Air Foroea rel&tiw to tbia a.tter. I have been ad"fiaed
that these J.natructioJlS 1nclicat.e that the Air Foroea would inter
Tin reaponeible obaervere •hi:le the FBI would inwstipte inoidenta
or diaoa to\Dld on the ground, thereby relleri.Dg the Air Foroea or
rumiing down inoidenta which 1n mn,y ca.sea turned out to be •uh
oan covera. toilet aeat■ and whatnot."
ID Yin ot the apparent underat:anlling by the 'Air Foroea
or the poaition ot the Federal.Bureau ot Investigation in thia
matter, I OAIUlOt pel"Jlit the J>8N<mnel and time ot this organisa
tion to be 4iaa1pa:ted in this manner.
I &m advising the Field D1Tia1cma ot the Fede?'&l Bureau
ot Inveatigation to diaoontinue all 1nvoat1gative aotirlty regard- r~-,~
ing the reported aightinga of flying di1011, and am instructing them ·,.--
to reter all oampl&inta reoe1nd to the a ppropi-iaw Air Foro. •
repreaentat1ft in their area. t.
Sincerely yours.
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!.!l ss Oan:I~ 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.