65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 003

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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/421 TI 3d Avenue
Spokane, fiashington
Augus"t 8, 1947
Miliwry Intelligence Ill.vision, u.s.A.
l!cChord Field, l'fo.shington
Gentlemen:
FollO?ring the reading of an account or the visit af Er. Kcn:roth
Arnold, Boise, lcbho, as published in the Spo1'"..csman Revlon under date
o:r Au'"'-ust 7, 1947, tho undel:3igned considered the enclosed accou.."lt of
an obscrv:1tion or a 11flying saucor11 would be or interest to you.
Thi:J account has not been given to any neWSIXlper or oliher putlica
tion us yet .
Yours tru~,
/s/ R. J . l.adden
R. J . MADDEN
Division Plant Mgr.
The Pac. Tel. & Tel. Co .