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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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Dear Sir:
The following, in~ral, are the facts }'~garding the
flying disc story that started by F:l vRI S'. ~ •r and 1-LROID A.-f.U1rnL which
subsequently resulted in news stories~ the acoma TLnes, the ~oise Stateaman
and th~hicaeo Times that a B- 25 carrying Army Intelligence officers was shot
down 'or sabotaged over Kelso~ ,ashington on August 1, 1947 because it was carry
ing so~e flying disc fragments .
The original story, as related by FRED CPIS!WJ and .l:L\ROLD _
DAHL, was to the effect that DAHL, while patrolling in his boat near .:.:aury
d land, ,ashington, sighted six flying discs, one of which fluttered to the
~ earth and disintegrated, showering his boat with fragments ,,nich caused some
the boat and killed his dog . H.,ROID D•.HL wrote a letter to RAY A.
•ff- Davis Company which publishes fantastic adventure magazines in
sen· g him f:r;pgments of the flying disk and relating the above story.
..,AL.:.!ER requested---1:rans- Radio ~.rews in C1 .icago to verify the story as related
by H.~ROID DAHL and FRZD CPIS:.W~legraphed RAY i .1,L'..IER confirming DAHL I s story.
RAY PAU.::ER then engaged im!f\TE . r'NOID,, .Boise, Idaho, who was the first to report
sighting the flying di sc and w om Ri,Y P,-.Il '.ER had previously made a contract for
story regarding the flying disc , to come to Tacoma and check the story as -"1_.
related by FRED CRIS:UN and HAROID DAHL. --KEI-J::ETH .\t,NOLD came to Tacona, ..ashington July 30, 1947 and
arranged for a meeting the following day, July 31, with FRED C"'.IS!.:Ai.' and H.\ROID
502, ,iinthrop Hotel, Tacomq,, :15.shington. KE:!NEJH' .•ttNOID also
called to attend the meeting Captain ~~v;r): S'ITTH, United Airlines Pilot who
had also reported seeing flying disc fragments , and Army Intelligence to attend
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