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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 003
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 190 pages · text from the file's own layer
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
- p. 9 …Depar tment of Justioe, ~
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Attached aUl'Ullary for11arded for your information.
1 Inola DONALD…
- p. 33 …Smith of United Airlines
of Seattle , Washington to attend this meeting. Dahl and Chrisman maintained
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that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer had received from the Fire Chief at
Harbor, Washington, to…
- p. 37 …June, 1947 he was requested by the Seattle
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- p. 39 …at his home, 3027 ..est Laurelhurst Drive,
Seattle at which time S:ilTH stated he had…
- p. 41 …no investigation was being conducted by
the Seattle Office. CRI~L\N at this time related…
- p. 42 …when he drove S:!ITH to Seattle
to get his car and thL>t DAHL went…
- p. 43 …retained as an exhibit i n the Seattle Office .
The following information was obtained by Special…
- p. 44 …CRIS'!'!AN drove SllITH back to Boeing Field
near Seattle where &.'ITH desired to pick up…
- p. 48 …About an hour after his arrival in Seattle, which was
approximately 7:30 F'. 1'. , LANTZ…
- p. 49 …JOHN NOLAN
at the County-City Building, Seattle and made a deposition of the facts relating…
- p. 52 …in Seattl.e tor a very brief time and the
second time in Boise, Idaho Y…
- p. 54 …Crismon that I
sb.ould like to pick up my oar in Seattle. llr. Crismon drove…
- p. 56 …Notary Public In and for the state
or aahington, residing at Seattle•
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- p. 92 …He stated he flew to Seattle and got Captain Sl'ITH, and that Lieutenant
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- p. 95 …considered as Referred Upon
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- p. 143 …FBI SEATTLE 8-14- 47 5-21 PM
/4RECTOR FBI URGENT
L. R. BRUMMETT. SID'l…
- p. 175 …Report on a 'Flying Saucer 1 • 11
lfo action being ta}fen by Seattl e .
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- p. 178 …A,ttrICHOLS, Seattle:...,.w;s~ton,
August 12, 1947
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The newspaper , Seattle…
- p. 180 …102nd Street, Seattle, and their version of the object corresponded
with that of NICHOLS and STANLEY…
- p. 186 …writer that while driving between Ellensburg and Seattle, Washing•
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