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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
VENTURE PRESS 305 S TUDIO BUILDING 1718 S H ERMAN AVENU E E VANSTON, ILLINOI B Au&1t 5. 1947 !Ar. Kenneth Arnold. Box 387, Boise~ Idaho Dear Mr . .\rnold: It seems that Mr. Maurice Roddy of the Chicago Times got the atory from Mr. Sir.1th, because he oslled me, told me he was running it. I knew only 'What you'd told me over the phone. Now, it seems the newspapers a.re pestering th~ very devil out of all ycu fellows. cr1sma.n wired me for inst1uotions. and I told him to cay nothing tb the newspapers, because he'll look silly if the army explains th1~ as •meteors~ or something like that. I don't blame you for being alarmed, but I trust you've had no trouble i n your flying since then. Let's get that straight- there 's no horrible plot 1n#olved. It's probably true that the t\llO m the people of Amerioa, if not the 110rld. Antl no censorship of the matter is logal. You needn't fee.r that angle. You certainly did a bang-up job of investignt1ont also you wrote one of the best article a about your aune 24 experience I 've ever seen. Piease do the same on t his last business. Yuu On it to those two men 1rho were killed. I 'd also like to know what developed on those pictures you took of those ndacks", or whatever they were.
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.