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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. 9 …On 15 July 1947, AAF BU (ORD), Squadron A, Hamilton Field, California, was interviewed and stated…
  • p. 14 …A-TWO HAMILTON FIELD, IN CHARGE OF INVESTIGATION BY A-TWO IS THOUGHT BY A-TWO…
  • p. 18 HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, AND CAPTAIN OF UNITED AIR LINES, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON TO ATTEND THE MEETING. AND…
  • p. 32 …He also exhibited orders emanating from the office of Colonel A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton…
  • p. 33 …Assistant Chief of Staff A-2 Intelligence, Hamilton Field, California. further described the direction of the…
  • p. 86 …SPRINGER, A- TWO ADVISE XXX OFFICER FOR THE FOURTH AIR FORCE, HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, ADVISED THAT…
  • p. 87 …BROWN WERE RETURNING TO HAMILTON FIELD FOR AIRFORCE DAY AND HAD WITH THEM SOME OF THE…
  • p. 99 …to me by Lieutenant Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, setting forth the results of inquiries…
He advised that he did not observe any evidence of motion such as vapot or trails, etc. and could hear no noise over the noise of his own ship.

Investigation in the vicinity of Myrtle Creek, Oregon, has failed to reveal any other person sighting the objects reported by No further investigation is being conducted. 67c

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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.