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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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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTI TION The Director Mr. Tolson Mr. Ladd Mr. Rosen Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Nichols Mr. Tracy Mr. Harbo Mr. Carroll Mr. Coyne Mr. Fletcher Mr. Laughlin Mr. McCabe Mr. Mohr Mr. Nease Mr. Pennington Mr. Quinn Tamm Mr. Tyler Records Section Stamp and mail Prepare tickler Call file check with Army Air Force Edward A. Tamm 3 JE 5734
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.