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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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Page #4 P'.r1day the l ·st: At approximately 8 o ' c1ock 1n t..he morning, Mr. Crismon oalled up our hotel room and acquainted us with the tact that the B- 2.5 had crashed. Also that he had called MoChord 1'1eld and from intormation he received also verified the taot that the t wo men in the ship were Cs.pt . Davidson and Lieut . Brown, plus a f1lght engineer and a hitch-hiker. This left both Mr. Arnold and myself ln a very bad sta(;e of concern. Approximate-· ly an hour later Mr. Crismon and Mr. Dahl made their appearanoe in the hotel rocn. I still wasn't sure t hnt this was the same B-25 that the two Intelligence ottioers had left in last night. Yr. Crismon then again called McChord Field and talked to a Colonel Gregg. and the tact was verified again tha ~ the two pilots were Davidson and Brown. Atter an hour or so Yr. Crismon and Ur • . Dahl le!'t the hotel room. with a plan in mind ot the tour of us meeting the next morning (Saturday) tor breaktast and going out to Maury Island. That evening (Friday) there was a message tor me to call this part1oular tel-ephone number that as on the message . I called this .number and was asked by the party to please call thEm from a pa,ystatlon,. This party was a Mr. Lantz, a reporter on the Tacoma Tim.es. He told me, "I most certainl1 am doing myself out of a good story but I thought you ought to know that somebody has been oalllng this paper and giving us a bloa-b1•blow description ot all that bas taken ·place 1n your roan since you arrived. " To verily this , 11.r. Lantz repeated back to me discussions that I felt had only been taking place 1n our .room. Mr. Lantz also made the statement that there was a leak eit her tram t he switchboard operator or our room had been tapped. I asked Ur. Lantz why he was tipping us otf with this infonnation. He made the statement that he dld.Jl't mind doing this if in return that any l.ntonnation that I may let out woul.d be given to him.. Atter this conversation with Mr. Lantz I went back to our room and told Ur. Arnold, mat took plac~ on the telepho•e• Saturday morning: Mr. Arnold and I met Mr. Dahl and Fred Crismon tor breaJd'ast. e then drove out to the boat to go to the island. The boat as unserviceable at the time so we went baok to the hotel. Ur. Crismon said that he would call later on in the day and let us know when the boat would be repaired . That was the last time I saw Ur. Crismon. Approximately 11 o'clock Saturday morning Mr. Crismon phoned me and made the statement it would be impossible for him to keep this appointment with me . le were cut off by the switchboard operat or as this \las classified as not an Emergency oall. The reason we were cut ott was due to a strl~e in all the Tacoma hotels .
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