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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Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : D. M. Ladd FROM : J. P. Coyne DATE: September 4, 1947 SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCER W. Colson W. E. A. Yard W. Cleen W. Coffey W. Flahie W. Lail W. Nichols W. Rosen W. Tracy W. Curat W. Leen W. Durca W. Hendon W. Pennington W. Quirin Tenn Reference is made to the memorandum from Mr. Baughman to Mr. Harbo, dated August 28, 1947, requesting advice as to the final disposition of material submitted by Mrs. Estill, South Carolina. It is noted that this material, which reported to be a part of a flying saucer, has been identified as powdered soap stones. It is recommended that the material be returned to Mrs. along with a letter advising that such has been identified as powdered soap 67c stones. RGF LH 12th in Gait, 9 - 9 - 49 Num RECORDED & INDEXED EX.46 162 - 8 794 - 79 52 SEP 18 1947
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.