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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.
“United Press”17 pages
~ ... August 19, 1947 all of his infor.nation in the hands of the Army. $'£.ITH stated that a couple of days later he called .iajor S~NDERd at ,.,.cChord Field and asked him if there was any recent information concerning the incident. a!ITH states that •.fajor SMTOERS infonned him that CRISJA}T had not yet been contacted, but that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was "setting a trap for him". S'ITH further advises that on Friday, August 8, 1947, he appeared before Lawyer JOHN NOLAN at the County-City Building, Seattle and made a deposition of the facts relating to the incidents in Tacoma from 'l'hursday afternoon, July 31, last until Sunday morning, August 3, last . A copy of this deposition is now in possession of the writer and is being forwarded herewith to the Bureau. It should be noted that this deposition is in no way as complete as the statement taken by the writer above and any setting out of this deposition in this communication would be superfluous . Copies of this communication are being sent to the Butte, Portland, San Francisco and Chicago Offices for their infonnation only. Unless advised by the Bureau to the contrary, instant investigation is considered closed by this office . For the infonnation of the Bureau, Captain R. G. BJORNING, Intelligence Officer, ~1cChord Field, Ft . Lewis, .,ashington advised at the weekly O.P.I.- S. I .D.-F. B. I . Intelligence conference that the Public Relations Officer at McChord Field had received a telephone call from an individual at Army Air Forces Headquarters at ,;ashington, D. C. , during wh.ich call the Public Relations Officer was requested to obtain a signed statement from DAHL and CRIS?'iAN which could be published and thus publicly close the matter. Captain BJCRNING further related that he had no additional information in this matter and that he did not handle it. Very truly yours, ,. £et~~Special ~~~~f~ harge ENCLOSURES DAM;PHL:11:EK 100-18945 CC - Butte Portland San Francisco Chicago - 14 -
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.