Documents / FOIA release
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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Office Memorandum · UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO' : Mr. Ladd FROM : 67C DATE: August 8, 1947 SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; Informants; 676 FLYING DISC MISCELLANEOUS There is attached a memorandum setting forth the pertinent information received by the Detroit Office from relative to "flying discs." and $ b \uparrow c $ It is recommended that this material be personally delivered by the Liaison Section to the appropriate contact in the War Department. RECOMMENDATION: Attachment RGF:MAW:EW Attachments to 52. Jacques m 15 8/11/47 2 5 2
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.