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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.
“Seattle”23 pages
• DIRECTOR, FBI FLYING DISKS, Report of 8/26/47 afternoon there were several pieces of burnt paper which flew over the field, and he did recall a large piece of l:urnt paper which the wind had blown across the runway and down the south end of the field . LOCKVlOOD estimated that the paper v,as approximately three feet in length. Mr. GRANT stated that undoubtedly this was the object in question, and inasmuch as the control tower has a complete view of the area in which the engineers had sighted this object if anything fur ther was noted it would have appeared in the log . Mr. M. A. NICHOLS, 1119 S , W. 102nd Street, was then interviewed regard ing his report of a flying object . NI CHOLS stated that about 4 p . m. on August 12 he had sighted an object which he estimated to be about 35,000 feet in the air, which was f l ying over his home in a southwest direction. A neighbor, RAY STANLEY, also saw the object and STANLEY examined the same with a pair of binoculars. According to STAlJLEY the object looked like a ,-nite dock moving, ·cylindrical in shape, and reflected the light of the sun with a sort of purplish tinge . Other witnesses who had seen the object at this ti re were a Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE KROGSTADT, of 1113 S. w. 102nd Street, Seattle, and their version of the object corresponded with that of NICHOLS and STANLEY. Contact with Mr. THQi!AS B. GERMJ,IN, of the Seattle Weather Bureau Office at Boeing Field, revealed that weather balloons are released every six hours from his field coinrrencing at 1:30 a . m. The balloons, according to Mr. GERMAIN, are of a white gum color and reflect the light of the sun at a high altitude . .Al though Mr. G3RHAIN could not understan:i why a balloon could have been sighted at 4 p .m., he nevertheless was certain that, from the description of the object seen by these people, it must have been either one of his balloons or one released from some other area in the vicinity. No further investigation is being conducted in this matter by this office. JJS:JG 62-
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.