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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. 7 …out of Boise on the route to Seattle, Washington. It is the opinion of the interviewer…
  • p. 18 HAMILTON FIELD, CALIFORNIA, AND CAPTAIN OF UNITED AIR LINES, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON TO ATTEND THE MEETING. AND…
  • p. 86 ## FBI SEATTLE FLYING DISCS, S. M. - X. RETEL PORTLAND TO DIRECTOR, SAN FRANCISCO, AND SEATTLE AUGUST…
  • p. 87 …FLYING DISCS AND UNITED AIRLINES PILOT FROM SEATTLE, WN., WHO ALSO REPORTED SEEING FLYING DISCS. THIS…
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION LABORATORY Date 1/17 1947

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CRYPTANALYSIS SECTION ROOM 7630

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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.