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This FBI file section, from 1947, gathers Army Air Forces counterintelligence reports and FBI memoranda about the summer's flying disc reports. It includes a Boise newspaper pilot's sworn statement describing a black object he filmed on 9 July 1947, interviews with a United Air Lines captain and a Hamilton Field soldier, and a Pan American crew's orange object near Boston. Other items cover the Tacoma disk fragment story, which was admitted to be false, the fatal B-25 crash at Kelso, a coded "Radio Ham" message dismissed as a hoax, and an Air Defense Command assessment that "something is really flying around."
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION AUG 7 1947 ## TELETYPE Mr. Tulson... Mr. E. A. Tamm... Mr. Clegg... Mr. Glavin... Mr. Ladd... Mr. Nichole... Mr. Rosen... Mr. Tracy... Mr. Egan... Mr. Curnea... Mr. Harbo... Mr. Mohr... Mr. Pennington... Mr. Quinn Tunam... Mr. Nense... Miss Gandy... STATING HE HAD BEEN UNABLE TO ANALYZE THE MATERIAL. AND STATE A FEW DAYS AFTER THE FLYING DISK STORIES STARTED THE LATTE PART OF JUNE, LAST, CONTACTED THEM BY PHONE AT TACOMA, WASHINGTON, SAYING HE WOULD PAY FOR AN EXCLUSIVE STORY IF THE MATERIAL WHICH THEY HAD SENT HIM WAS FRAGMENTS OF A FLYING DISK. STATES HE WROTE A LETTER IN WHICH HE STATED THE MATERIAL WAS PART OF A FLYING DISK. AND DMIT THIS STATEMENT WAS ENTIRELY FALSE. AND STATE THEY WERE CALLED BY OTTOBUSA IDAHO TO MEET WITH HIM AT THE WHITHROP HOTEL, TACOMA, WASHINGTON JULY THIRTYFIRST, LAST. THEY STATE CALLED IN ARMY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS FROM 55 OCT 1934
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault 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. 111 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.