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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 OF DIRECTOR FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE September 8, 1947 Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd ___ Mr. Nichols___ Mr. Rosen___ Mr. Tracy___ The attached was sent to the Director by Walter Winchell. Mr. Carson___ Mr. Egan___ Mr. Gurnea___ Mr. Harbo___ The notations appearing thereon read: Mr. Hendon___ Mr. Jones___ "Ack & F.B.I." Mr. Pennington__ Tele. Room___ Mr. Nease___ Miss Holmes___ Mizz Gandy___ "Please excuse haste make airmail west." Attachment mt 67c 62-83894-76 Bureau files fail to reflect any record on a Mrs.
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.