Kelso

Single panel intelligence dossier evidence-board image for the August 1 1947 B-25 crash near Kelso Washington rendered in muted late-1940s color showing a forested hillside with a column of dark oily smoke rising from an off-frame crash site two parachutes drifting down against a pale overcast sky and the wing and tail of a 1947 twin-engine B-25 bomber visible in the trees with its left engine smoking, an aged-paper evidence inset in the lower corner showing six dark heavy slag-like fragments on a cloth tagged as the disc metal, and an upper-corner black-and-white newspaper inset reproducing the Idaho Daily Statesman August 3 1947 headline Metal Found in Disc Probe Reported on Plane, with HUD overlays marking the B-25 left-engine fire and Kelso crash, the two enlisted crew who bailed out and survived, the killed intelligence officers Captain William Davidson and Lieutenant Frank Brown, the six pieces of disc metal identified as Maury Island foundry slag from a hoax, the officially doubted sabotage rumor, the related-evidence classification, the Idaho Daily Statesman Dave Johnson source, and the Explained accident and hoax-material status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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1947: Metal Found in ‘Disc’ Probe Reported On Plane – Article

Published: August 8, 2013 | Updated: June 5, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1947: Metal Found in ‘Disc’ Probe Reported On Plane Six pieces of heavy, heat-scarred metal — said...