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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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VENTURE PRESS 305 STUDIO BUILDING 171 B SHERMAN AVENUE E VANSTON, ILL INO I S June 26. 1947 Mr. Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Ide.ho Dear Mr. Arnold: I have just read an aocount in the Chicago Tribune oonoerning an aerial train composed or at least 9 units shaped like a pie-plate and silvery in color, traveling at 1200 m.p.h. near Mount Ranier, as witnessed by you while flying in the vicinity. This is quite important to me, because I have in my possessjon numerous independent confirmations of what you saw. although none in as great detail as your account. I am interested in publishing an article in our magazine, written from a personal aooount by yourself, and accompanied by pix of yourself. plane, and rough sketches by yourself, of what you saw. If you oare to do this for me, I am prepared to pay our usual rates of 2¢ perword, plus $5.00 for each photograph you can provide, or for each sketch which can be used by our art staff to illustrate the article. Included in this material, we'd like a short biographical sketch of yourself as •author background• material. The article anuld appear under your by-line. If you are not interested, I w,uld at least appreciate a letter from you, confinning the newspaper story. Very truly yours,{~ A. Palmer The Venture Press In your reply, please use airmail.

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.