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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.
“Hamilton”17 pages
- p. 2 …SPRINGER of A-2, Hamilton Field,
California. Even thoug)l Col. SPRINGER feels that Mr. JOHNSON…
- p. 5 …SPRINGER of A-2, Hamilton Field, California,
dated August 27, 1947, with attachment s reporting the…
- p. 8 HEADQOARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE
Office of the Aa•iatant Chier of Statf, A-2
Intelligenoe
Hamilton…
- p. 33 …According to them Arnold called in ar:ny intelligence officers
from Hamilton Field, California and one…
- p. 36 …the morning of August 1,
1947 to return to Hamilton Field, California for Air For ce…
- p. 39 …25 was carrying disc fragments returning to
Hamilton Field, California and furnishing the inference that the…
- p. 40 …with
Ar-my A~2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field and that the fragments were top secret…
- p. 43 …On the same
date called Lieutenant BRO~'N at 5800 Hamilton Field, Cali fornia, collect •
.ARNOW…
- p. 45 …Shortly afterward, Colonel GRF.GG called him from McCrord
Field stating that Hamilton Field had requested…
- p. 53 …Arnold had made a telephone call to Hamilton ?ield to
contact a Captain Davidson and a…
- p. 54 …Davidson wero going baok to Hamilton Field and that he
would get in tQuoh with me…
- p. 60 …M>RINGER, A-2, Fourth
_Air Foroe, Hamilton Field, California, involving reported aightings ot flying ~
disoe…
- p. 87 …Colonel DONALD SPRINGER, A-2, Fourth Air
Force, Hamilton Field, California, advised that the Area Intelligence…
- p. 92 …Captain
DAVI~SON , Army intelligence officers at Hamilton Fiel d, and had asked them to
come…
- p. 149 …The article further reported that the plane crashed near Hamilton Field,
California, and it w·as…
- p. 159 …Springer, A-2, Ar-my Air Foroes,
Hamilton Field, California, a copy of which is attached…
- p. 181 …SPRINGER, A-2, Army Air Forces, Hamilton Field, California~ which letter
is designated to certain Commanding…
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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 190 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.