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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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NFIDZI~TiAL i ..., Authority: NNO 90986 EEAJr.LUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office 0£ tho Assi:;tan't Chief of Sta.i'f, A-2 !ntelli£er..ce Ilamilton Field, California . 4AFDA. 26 Aucust 1947 SUl3.JECT: Flyini;; Di so • TO: Special Agent in Char~e, FBI, U. s. Depart.ment of Juitioe, Federal Office Building, Room 422, San Francisco, Calif. l. The attached true copy of a letter from 'r. F. M. Johnson wae reoeived by thie officer 22 A~guat 1947. 2. Your attention is invited to the similarity between Arnold's early report and this ~entleman'a report. A possibility exists that Mr. Johnson might have read aome or this· 1n the newspapers when Arnold was publ1cizod re this ma~tor. 3. Thia headquarters doos not intend to investigate ~his incident . It is requested that a roeult or nny in~erview you may make be furnished this ~eadquarters. 'J. DONALD L-. SPRIJIGER 1 lnolt (dup) ~ Lt. Colonel, GSC Ltr fr i;- . ·•• Johnson AC of S,' A-2 (True Cy) ) I • AUG 2'1 1
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 190 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.