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This FBI file, a report from the Seattle field office to the FBI Director dated August 1947, covers the Maury Island flying disc story told by Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl. It says Kenneth Arnold looked into the story for Ray Palmer, and that Army Intelligence officers Davidson and Brown died when their B-25 crashed at Kelso carrying the supposed fragments. The FBI found no sign of sabotage. Crisman and Dahl admitted the material had no connection to discs, and the report names Crisman as the most likely anonymous caller.
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HAROLD A. DAHL and FRED CRISMAN make the following foluntary statement to SA DAVID A. MAC CULLOCH of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the early part of June 1947 we picked up some strange rock formations from a gravel pit on Maury Island, Washington. We sent a box (cigar) of these fragments to RAY PALMER of Venture Magazine at Evanston Illinois to have it analyzed. Later PALMER wrote and asked for additional samples stating that he had failed to have them analyzed. Around the later part of June a few days after the first disc stories started PALMER contacted us by phone. He told us not to tell the newspapers about the fragments and he would pay for an exclusive story if the fragments could be from a flying disc. One of us told him the fragments could have been from a flying disc. Just after our phone conversation HAROLD DAHL wrote a letter to RAY PALMER setting out some notes etc. regarding the fragments and indicating they could have come from flying discs. The next thing we heard was about the first of July when we got a Trans Ocean Press telegram from Chicago asking not about these flying disc fragments. We told them to forget the entire matter. The next we heard of these fragments was when we were called by KENNETH ARNOLD to meet with him in the Winthrop Hotel on July 31,1947 We told him exactly how we had found the fragments and had forwarded them to FALMER to be analyzed. The above is the entire and true story as regards our connection with the flying disc stories etc. which originated over the ore samples which we sent to be analyzed. Kneldr. Kienn Distanced Alask David A. Mr Cullack F.B.I . Seattle 8/7/47
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