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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 03

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 111 pages · text by GLM-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…

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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.