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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.
“Seattle”23 pages
STATE OF ASHlNG'l'ON ) ~ ss COUNTY OF JU?G J.E. SMITH, being firs~ duly sworn, on oath, deposes aiid says: Thi·s ls a narrative statement as to what took place 1A Tacoma i'rom Thursday, July 31 until Sunday, August J . Thursday I received a telephone call trom Tacoma trom a Ke.nn.eth Arnold. The gist ot this conversation was that he thought it wou1d be a good idea tor me to come to Tacom14 and listen to the story of t.wo 11e.n. whose names were Fred Crismon and Harold Dahl . This Ke.nneth Arnold I had met two times previous - o~oe on Juiy 5 a t the ottlc e ot the P . I . in Seattl.e tor a very brief time and the second time in Boise, Idaho Y&en I was passing through on one ot my trips. In this conversation with Arnold on tb.e phone , I made the s t atement that it v1ould be impossible tor me to go over to Tacoma due to 11J3 going out to Salt Lake City the next morning. He said that he would tly over trom Tacoma and pick me up at Boeing Field. I agreed to this proposition trom Arnold. At 4 o•olock I met Arnold at the Boei.ng Field and we tlew back and landed at Barry•s Airport. e were picked up at the airport by lrred Crismon, who drove the two ot us into the inthrop Hotel . e went up to Room 502 -- Crismon,. Arnold and myself' . !'red Crismon put a telepbo_ne call into Harold Dah.l and asked him would be come up to the room. A half hour later Harold Dahl made his appearanoe. At tb.is t .ime there were tour men in the room - Crismon, Dahl, Arnold, and myselt. Ur. Arnold asked Mr. Dahl to relate his story as to hat took place on June 24. Ur. Dahl was very hesitant about telling the story to me. Arnold and llr. Crismon were already aware ot the statements that Dahl had made previous. Mr. Dahl made the statement to me tha t it any statements he ~ould make rela tive to h1.s story. it I oold keep it confident1a1 for two weeks, that he felt definitely that I ~ould want to forget the whole thl.ng. I made the statement to Mr. Dahl that as tar as I was concerned. I woold keep any statements he made to me oonfldential tor at least two weeks. Here is Dahl ' s story: On June 24 (this date to be checked later) he was ln a boat owned by Fred Crismon, who owns the Harbor Patrol in Tacoma . They - - Ltr. Dahl, a Kr. Knight, and Hr. Dahl's son age 16, were cruising around Maury Island looking for logs that had broken away trom booms. They were tairly close to shore of Maury Island when they saw four or five obj ects 1n the sky a t an altitude ot approximately 1500 feet . He said tb.ese objects were
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