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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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• •• '\ August 27, 1947 n:lrector , FBI Re : Flying Discs - Tacoma, "n . 1947, however , when Cr ISMA.N was approached in this regard, and they had gone to the boat house v-.here CHRIS !Al kPot his boat, CHRISMAN could not seem to make the boat run, nr-d after m4kitg some excuses that he hnd to rettrn to his office, had stated that he woula return in a.bout an hour, and by thet time his mechanic should have tre boat repaired and they could all proceed to Wsuri Island . r . 'QNOL informed that CHRIS' never returned, end thrt they were unable to locate CHRISllA at any of the telephone numbers he had ~iven them. They located inAEL in a movie, accord'ng to AR 'OLD, and that DAHL, after making so~e efforts to locate C~IS , ,~d informed them the.t CHRIS' h~~ le't town for a few days . He furt ,er inforned that about this time the oress contacted them and told them an inform~nt had called and told them +hRt 1~' ~son his way to Alaska ir an Army pl ane . r . ~ OLD advised tt- 11 t Captain S T"' had informed him thtsoever vlth the :!oise StatesmPn . He stated that the Boise Statesman has never p-id him for any information he has given them . He i nfonned that he sincerely believes that the Boise Stites'"' n is attemptin@, as ha is , to get to the bottom o~ tle flying discs story . 1T . AM'OLD stated thqt he has told the above story to Army Intelli ence a d 11\jor SA1 DERS ar. to no one else , w 1th the exception of SA JET~., . DAVE JOIDSOO , Boise Statesman, loise , Idaho, advised.that the Boise Statesman has never paid r . AR OLD for any news item he has given them, and has never approached him in this ,nanner . lie stated that the Boise Statesman is riot attempting to push t.~e flying discs story , but Ill':?rely attempting to - 5-
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.