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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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•PORTLAND, OREGON, August 2oth l9t7 Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer . Aasietant Starr Sir . Saw in the portland pnper a short time ago in rogards to an artiol e 1n recards to tho so called f l ying diso having nny basi s of £not . I cun say am a prospeotor and was in the lit Adams distriot on June 24th the day K.:?,nne*kmol d of Boise Idaho claiMB he saw a ~Orl!!Ction of flyinG dtso. A nd 1 saw the samo f l yin& objeots at about the :st:une 'time. Ihviu; r.. telot;c:>pe with rt'!t at tho +.:.mo i onn e.sure you they are r~~l nnd notin~ lil=o tho~ I ovur 3aw before ~hoy did not pass verry hir,h over whore l ,..-a.o ato.nding a.t the tho tii:no. ,?lobly 1000 .rt . thoy rtero Round abo~t 30 root in dime.tor tapering sharply ton point in tho bN1d end in en OVC'.l :lhnpo. with u brit;h"G top aur:!'acQ. ! did not heor any noiao U3 :rou would ~on a plane. But ther~ was an object in the tail end looked like c. 6115 hanu or a block shi.f'ting !'ro:::i side to side like a big magen~t. Thero spoed as rar as i know seoced to be ereater than anythint I ever saw. Lost veir, I got or tho objeots they vere standing on edge 13&.rtkin~ in a Cloud. Yours Respectfully /s/ F. M. Johnson A Lt . Colonel, AC 0£ S, A- 2 L\. Urt 106 No . West 1st Ave Portland. Oregon CONFIDENTIAL
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.