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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 003

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 190 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 169 …RICHARD ANDERSON, when interviewed by an Afl'ent of this office, advised that they, in company…
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port on a nFl.y.i.n3 ucer n
At. or rout 12:05 p.m., J~ 29, 1947, a sedan, driven b7 Stove
Herrr:ann and carrying H. J . (Bob) awn 1n t.ho .rront aeat and Kllrl. lbr.D3nn
in tt. rear seat., s pr-ocoodinG nortJrueot.er ly along the road leoding £ rom
Caeyon ~•eny to York., both in l!ontans. some 2.5 miles N. E. o! Helen:1-
n at n point approximtc~ 1/4 mile U•• or Canyon Ferry, (as ohown
on Foreot Service p to be 1n tm NE or llE~ or • 10 n011 Rm) Karl
suddenly shouted Sec it J See itJ There 1s a :Oy1ng saucer I" Steve ~d-
intoly sloned domi am dually broueht too sunan t.o a atop., he an:i Bob
&anft bile scanning the sey in the d.1.rcction pointed by Korl 1n an ei'£art to
soe tm 11flyine onucer11 ., but m..thout Guccess .
Approxmiately' ton seconds elapsed betl1cen the t 1m Xarl report.od aeoing
the •sauceru., coI:11.ng over the horiton at high .apeod trom the southv:oot, (Knrl
first thcraght 1t a meteor) and travel.11ng northeasterly, and the briJJeing of
the car to a stop.
As the car cane to a stop. :tove, Karl and Bob, m.multaneously, atm tho
follo;1iQc :
Direct~ ahead., (H .ii) 2 to 3 ell.es dismnt and approxi!:mto~ )(X)() .rt .
above the grcr.md., a bright disc hovering and .nutter.1.ng in the air. Dcoccnd
lnt; and rinin.,. through n vertical distance or fifty or a bWldrcd feet for a
period of about five seconds then., while at the top of nn ascent, tho ri.:H.oc"
suddenly moop:?d to the Northeast at treocndoua speed and di.sap red into
too clear air m.thi.n a diotance of 200 i't . Th t 1B to eay it did not p:30D
beyond an obstruction to 1'urtber v1Dibil1ty blt "c:elt.od into thin nir" iu:: :1.f
bccall!le of tre;;xmdoua apeod.
This disc as., from the vic"apo1nt or the observero, oppc.ron~ 3 ft .
in d.ilu:13tor circulnr un:1 of 110 ercat thiclmoDS - approxiL:ote~ .) or 4 incbos •
1
The oey uas blue .ith scattered m:Dll clouda, the 6Uil 1rao ohinin{;
bri.chtly nm the disc e).camed and ahir:::13rcd :1.n tho brlebt cru..'llicht oo it
covered m.th highly p:>liehed niclml•
After the "di.Ge" di&1. rcd.f ro:J Vien, the secbn and it occup:mto
roceeded nortJmostcrly alone tho road, llUt c~ discern no evidcnco of the
~sence or the "disc" along or adjacent to that 'tb>rotare .
It io to be rc:iemoored tmt too dimnotons as stated abov ro ac
',llf!Y appe3red to thO observan; OOl:lC 2 or 3 miles rrom the 1
'di0c11
nd the
true dimnm-ons ?:USt be cone:tdcrobly grcn.tor.
/s/ R. J • Uldclon.,
R. J . l!ADDI:21,
Divia1:on Pl.ant Ehgr .
7hc Pac . Tel . & Tel. Co .

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