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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 03

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 111 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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."

  • p. 9 …On 15 July 1947, AAF BU (ORD), Squadron A, Hamilton Field, California, was interviewed and stated…
  • p. 14 …A-TWO HAMILTON FIELD, IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATION BY A-TWO IS THOUGHT BY A-TWO…
  • p. 18 HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, AND CAPTAIN OF UNITED AIR LINES, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON TO ATTEND THE MEETING. AND…
  • p. 32 …He also exhibited orders emanating from the office of Colonel A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton…
  • p. 33 …Assistant Chief of Staff A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, California. further described the direction of the…
  • p. 86 …SPRINGER, A- TWO ADVISE XXX OFFICER FOR THE FOURTH AIR FORCE, HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED THAT…
  • p. 87 …BROWN WERE RETURNING TO HAMILTON FIELD FOR AIRFORCE DAY AND HAD WITH THEM SOME OF THE…
  • p. 99 …to me by Lieutenant Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, setting forth the results of inquiries…

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Dear Sir,

I am writing to inform you that I have received a letter from the Secretary of State regarding the receipt of a certain amount of money from the Treasury. The letter is dated October 22, 1947, and it is indexed under the heading "RECORDED INDEXED." The amount of money is not specified, but it is likely that it is a significant sum. I will forward the letter to the Secretary of State to ensure that it is received and processed properly.

Please contact the Secretary of State at the provided address or phone number for any further information.

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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.