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."
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In explaining the results of photographing the ship, Mr. stated that he was surprised that the object appeared dark on a light background; that he fully expected that the object would be light on a dark background. He described the light spot which appears in the center of the object (Exhibit II) as being a green house. insisted that the ship made no noise that was audible to his ear and he was unable to detect the presence of any propeller. He also related that after the newspaper release over Radio Station KTAR, wherein statements were made that he, had stated Army officials were studying the photographs, and that it was a top secret, he attempted to determine the source of this release and the Radio station finally told him that it was a United Press release from Washington, D. C. The following description of was obtained from observation 67c and interrogation: It should be stated that at the time of interview with Mr. Smith identified himself as an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and exhibited his credentials. However, pursuant to a request from Mr. Smith, he was introduced only as a representative of the United States government. His exact official connection was not made known to Mr. Smith. Agent Smith advised that he felt it was a peculiar procedure, but it was not his business. However, at the conclusion of the interview, Mr. Smith requested Mr. Smith to furnish him with the negatives and stated he would be glad to do so, but they were not in his immediate possession, and he would deliver them to the FBI the following morning. Mr. Smith requested that the negatives be returned to him. Agent Smith states that to this request, Mr. Smith made no reply. Agent Smith states that after leaving Mr. Smith he asked if the negatives would be returned to Mr. Smith and stated that he doubted very much that they would be returned. Mr. Smith then advised Mr. Smith that before he, Smith, would accept these negatives that Smith must be advised of Mr. Smith's identity and also advised that the negatives, if turned over to Mr. Smith, would not be returned to him.
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.