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FBI file: Kenneth Arnold

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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.

  • p. 2 …the morning of August 1, 1947 to return to Hamilton Field, California for Air Force Day…
  • p. 5 …25 was carrying disc fragments returning to Hamilton Field, California and furnishing the inference that the…
  • p. 6 …officers with Army A-2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field and that the fragments were top secret…
  • p. 9 …On the same date called Lieutenant BROWN at 5800 Hamilton Field, California, collect. ARNOLD also called…
  • p. 11 …Shortly afterward, Colonel GREGG called him from McChord Field stating that Hamilton Field had requested that…
  • p. 21 …Arnold had made a telephone call to Hamilton Field to contact a Captain Davidson and a…
  • p. 22 …Davidson were going back to Hamilton Field and that he would get in touch with me…

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