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This Central Intelligence Agency release, declassified and approved for release on 24 June 2013, is a collection of UFO photographs and pages from flying saucer books. It reproduces pictures including the Coniston saucer, the Trent photograph at McMinnville and a radar plot from Washington, D.C. Airport of 15 August 1952. The pages also discuss the Norwich sighting by F. W. Potter, the Bicknell sighting near Kilimanjaro, Maury Island and Farmington. The CIA adds no analysis of its own.
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make one wonder--as Mr. Arnold himself has said: whether there be any strange connection between these weird and mysterious amphibious spheres and the vast dumps of furnace slag found on ocean-floors. If there is, then these flying discs may dump and jettison metal elsewhere than in uninhabited islands! What was the line taken by the U.S. military authorities? A military intelligence officer called on Mr. Arnold and took away from him every piece of metal he had from Maury Island. Mr. Arnold had planned to make a cigarette ash-tray from the metal. The military man took Mr. Arnold to a smelter's works and pointed out tons of material that, he said, "was exactly like the fragments. It is only smelter's slag that you found in Maury Island," said the officer, smiling. He did not explain how that could be when there is no smelter's works in this very sparsely populated island, nor is it used as a dumping place. Further, no reference was made to the curious sixteen constituents of this metal from Maury Island. If what the officer alleged had been true, then smelter's slag must be a most amazing alloy, not to say a shocking waste of valuable metal on the part of any smelter knowing his business. The absurd 'subterfuge' of the officer was a pointer to the official attitude higher up in the U.S. Air Force. Or. April 27, 1949-two years later, when the circumstances would not be so fresh in people's minds-Project Saucer's experts administered the knock-out blow: "Chrisman and Dahl, under questioning, broke and admitted that the fragments were really unusual rock formations found on Maury Island, and had no connection with the 'flying discs'. They admitted telling the Chicago magazine that the fragments 'could have been remnants of the discs', in order to increase the sale value of their story. During the investigation, Dahl's wife consistently urged him to admit that the entire affair was a hoax, and it is carried as such in Project Saucer's files." It is likely that Chrisman and Dahl had been badly 'grilled' by the investigators, and warned that their jobs in the Coast
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.