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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 03

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 111 pages · text by 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."

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p. 3 …13,500 or 14,000 feet, mean sea level. Three of these men were national guard…
p. 27 …Cascade Mountains approximately five thousand feet from sea level, during the afternoon he noticed a reflection…

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.

Cases discussed

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
seen 9 objects flying in the air above the Cascade Mountain Range... Mr. Arnold had seen
The Maury Island Incident 1947
Tacoma disk fragments admitted false; Davidson and Brown killed when B-25 crashed at Kelso
United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho 1947
United Airlines captain interviewed at Boise on what he saw July 4th, 6 minutes out of Boise
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
newspaper publicity given at that time to the story about flying discs

About this file

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.