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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."

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p. 4 …pressing the search, that I probably would never see the disc-like objects referred to by…
p. 22 …I just to that I wove never about this. I do not believe it myself. Stars…
p. 75 …I informed him that I had never heard of any information indicating that Soviet espionage agents…
p. 101 …said that she had never seen anything like it before. She said that across the street…
p. 102 …He said he had never seen anything move through the air quite like this object, and…

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION LABORATORY Date 1/17 1947

No comments . A second is substantially as put forth in letter.

CRYPTANALYSIS SECTION ROOM 7630

Cases discussed

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
seen 9 objects flying in the air above the Cascade Mountain Range... Mr. Arnold had seen
The Maury Island Incident 1947
Tacoma disk fragments admitted false; Davidson and Brown killed when B-25 crashed at Kelso
United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho 1947
United Airlines captain interviewed at Boise on what he saw July 4th, 6 minutes out of Boise
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
newspaper publicity given at that time to the story about flying discs

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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.