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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
~cf' dJ)t:4 &...I - August ti, l<:14? I:uffi<,L:) A. D.ri.HL and FRED C.rlL..........i... mal~e the follor;rng f'oluntary st teront to ~J-1. L.-1.VID .,•• •..AC m.. LLtel. of the Feder 3.l Bureau 01· I nvestigation. I c t he eii~' r ar t <.." J une l ~"'i' \ e 1icked up some strange rock f or;1iations fro. a gravel pit on lli8ury I sland , 11ashington. ,1e sent a box (cigar ) of these fragments to RAY PAili.lER of Venture kagazine s t Evanston I llinois to have it anal yzed. Later P.AIMER wrote and asked for aduitional samples stating that he had failed to have them analyzed. Around the later purt of J une a few days aft er the first disc stories start ed ~AIMER cont acted us by phone . He told us not to tell the news papers a:iout the f r agments and he would pay for an exclusive story if the fragments could be from a f l ying disc . One of us tol d hi r the fragr.ients could have been from a flying disc. Just after our phone conversati on HAROLD DAHL wrote a l etter to RAY PALMER setting out some notes et c . regarding the fragments and indi cating t hey coul d have come from flying discs. The next thing we heard was about the fir st of J uly when v1e got a Trans Ocean Press telegram from Chicago asking lmll:t about these flying disc gragment s . We tol d them t o gor get t he entire mat ter. The next we heard of these fragments was when we were called by KENNETH ARNOLD to meet wt.th him in the Wint hr op Hotel on llluly 31 , 194? We t ol d hin exactly how v;e had found the f r aements and had forwarded t hem to FA.llll!R to be a nalyzed. The above is the entire and true story as regards our connection with the flying disc s t orie e etc . ·w riginated over the ore samples whi ch we sent to be analyzed. 1/~ If~~~~ r.4.£ ~~ifr~?
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.