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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."
“Hamilton”8 pages
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67c And through the courtesy of Gen. a letter from Sec. of war Robert Patterson, War Dep't, Washington, All were highly interested, appreciative, with the general trend of contacts being, "This is fine. Go right ahead." My point in writing you is to raise some money to proceed with. No budgets seemed to allow for the unexpected, elusive "discs." Sen. Carl Hatch, D-N.M., U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. has been contacted by mail for an appropriation, but even if this only requires one more week, it may be too late. You may contact any of the above listed persons to verify my contacts (excuse repetition word contact) during the past four months. In other words, I began reporting directly to Dr. Scientific Head of Los Alamos, and Colonel et al, some time ago that this type aerial "disc" was a reality. ## 67c
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.