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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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## C RELATION FOR THE OFFICER IF CHARGE: 1. On 10 July 1947, a chech was made at the following locations in Palm Springs, California for the purpose of trying to locate Palm Springs Police Department, Palm Springs Newspaper, "The Desert Sun", Palm Springs Water Company, Southern California Gas Company, Palm Springs Telephone Company, Palm Springs Employment Office, Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce, Royal Palms Hotel, 5 Palm Springs real estate offices, and the City Offices of Palm Springs including waste disposal, water rights, tax records and etc. No record of existed in any of the above mentioned offices. 2. On 11 July 1947, California for the past 14 years was interviewed. The statement that he had lived in Palm Springs for the past 24 years and that he was unaware if a person named had ever lived in Palm Springs. The statement that due to the fact that Palm Springs is a resort area and due to the fact that in the summer no more than 3 to 5 thousand people resided in Palm Springs, whereas in the winter months 10 to 12 thousand resided in Palm Springs, it was very possible that could have lived in Palm Springs more or less on a non-permanent status and he, not being aware of it. A check of General Delivery records revealed a letter addressed to Palu Springs, mailed from Cicero, Indiana, postmarked at Cicero, Indiana, July 1947, at S.F.P. The return address on the envelope was listed as the Cicero, Indiana. Permitted the contents of the envelope to be examined inasmuch as the contents was 3rd Class material and the envelope not sealed. The records were of a religious nature concerning the sad plight of American non-church goers, the second coming of Christ and etc. was contacted by and stated that there was a who had received mail through the general delivery office of the Palm Springs Post Office, but that the last mail, other than the letter mentioned above, came through the Post Office approximately two years ago. The scanned image seemed to have a very uncanny memory and recalled where the mail service in for the Post Office had been addressed to. This mail was addressed to the Post Office in care of a trailer camp located in Palm Springs. In calling the trailer camp office, it was found that the mail had lived in the camp but departed approximately two years ago and left no forwarding address. Investigation is continuing in an effort to locate and obtain a statement from him. A. K. H. C. 3/ A, C1C 4th AF
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.