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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."

  • p. 2 …an altitude of 14,000 feet mean sea level, which would be a mean average of…
  • 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…
This statement is made voluntarily and freely, in response to the request of Mr. Brown and Captain Davidson, who called on me this morning.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public, this 12th day of July, 1947.

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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.