Documents / FOIA release
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."
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
PAGE THREE FRIEND ON THE CHICAGO TIMES AND WAS POSSIBLY SELLING THE STORY TO TE CHICAGO TIMES THROUGH THIS FRIEND. A CHECK OF THE RECORDS AT THE WITHROP HOTEL, TACOMA WHERE HAD HIS ROOM, REFLECT THAT ON JULY THIRTY FIRST, LAST, CALLED AT A. N. EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, COLLECT, AND ALSO CALLED BOISE, IDAHO, COLLECT. ON AUGUST ONE, LAST, AT DEARBORN TWO THREE TWO THREE. ON-JULY THIRTY FIRST AND AUGUST ONE, LAST, A TOTAL OF FIVE ANONYMOUS CALLS WERE RECEIVED BY A TACOMA TIMES REPORTER AND THE UNITED PRESS WIRE MAN AT TACMA, GIVING INFORMATION REGARDING THE MEETING AT THE WINTHROP HOTEL OVER THE DISK FRAGMENTS AND STATING THAT THE B TWENTY FIVE HAD BEEN SHOT DOWN OR SABOTAGED WHICH KILLED CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LIEUTEANT BROWN INFERRING THAT THIS WAS DONE BECAUSE THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS WERE CARRYING DISK FRAGMENTS IN THEIR PLANE. AND STATE THESE CALLS COULD ONLY HAVE COME FROM THEMSELVES, AND DENY THAT THEY MADE THE CALLS. NO RECORD OF THE CALLS AS HAVING BEEN MADE FROM ROOM IN THE WINTHROP HOTEL CAN BE LOCATED. AND ARE EVASIVE AS TO JUST WHAT INFORMATION THEY DID FURNISH BY PHONE OR LETTER TO UNITED PRESS WIRE MAN, TACOMA, WASHINGTON, STATE IT APPEARS THE BOISE STATEMAN-S PAPER AND HAVE
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.