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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.

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“Office of Special Investigations”6 pages

p. 3 …TO: Special Agent in Char~e, FBI, U. s. Depart.ment of Juitioe, Federal Office Building…
p. 41 …At this time CRISI:AN asked if the .3eattle Office was investigation the crash of the…
p. 43 …offices of the Seattle Post Intelligencer where both were being interviewed concerning their sighting of flying…
p. 49 …contrary, instant investigation is considered closed by this office . For the infonnation of the Bureau, Captain…
p. 95 …to the Seattle Office . • JEJ:FPMc Encs . (RE~ISTERED) AIR 'f~IL SPECIAL DELIVERY cc - ~eattle / .,.
p. 159 …The results of the investigation conducted by the Bureau Field Offices in this matter have failed…

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Cases discussed

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Johnson says he saw the same objects on June 24, the day Kenneth Arnold of Boise made his report
The Maury Island Incident 1947
disc parts said to have struck a boat owned by Harold Dahl and Fred Chrisman; the Kelso crash of the investigators
Snake River Canyon Disc: The A.C. Urie Sighting 1947
A. C. Urie of Twin Falls and his two sons saw an object on August 13
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
many 1947 flying disc reports handled under Bureau Bulletin No. 42

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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.