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."
“United Press”7 pages
In view of which, on the morning on August 30, 1947, when Mr. called at the Phoenix office to deliver the negatives, they were accepted only after he was advised that they were being given to Mr. a representative of the Army Air Force Intelligence, United States Army, and that there was little, if any, chance of his getting the negatives back. Mr. turned the negatives over to this office with the full understanding that they were being given to the Army and that he would not get them back. The Phoenix office did not receive the Bureau teletype of reference instructing that no joint investigation should be conducted until after the matter had been handled. Inasmuch as military authorities have complete knowledge of the results of the interview with Mr. no copy of this report is being designated for A-2. JBB-kb cc-San Francisco 62-213
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 111 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.