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This is part five of the FBI's UFO file, a set of Bureau memoranda and reports from 1947 to 1949. Most of it covers the FBI's inquiry into the Maury Island flying disc story in Tacoma, which concluded that the disc fragments were ordinary rock formations and that the story was a hoax. It also examines the fatal crash of a B-25 at Kelso and finds no sign of sabotage. The file includes other items: the Rhodes disc photographs, a proposed flying saucer convention in Alexandria, Louisiana, and ash from a fire near Scranton that someone suggested came from a flying saucer.
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RE: FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY 67c TACOLA, WASHINGTON SL - X The following, in general, are the facts regarding the flying disc story that started by which subsequently resulted in news stories by the Tacoma Times, the Boise Statesman and the Chicago Times that a B-25 carrying Army Intelligence officers was shot down or sabotaged over Kelso, Washington on August 1, 1947 because it was carrying some flying disc fragments. The original story, as related by the original source, was to the effect that while patrolling in his boat near Maury Island, Washington, sighted six flying discs, one of which fluttared to the earth and disintegrated, showering his boat with fragments which caused some damage to the boat and killed his dog. The source wrote a letter to the editor of Biff-Davis Company which publishes fantastic adventure magazines in Chicago, sending him fragments of the flying disk and relating the above story. The source requested Trans-Radio News in Chicago to verify the story as related by the source, telegraphed confirming the story. The source then engaged Boise, Idaho, who was the first to report sighting the flying disc and whom the source had previously made a contract for a story regarding the flying disc, to come to Tacoma and check the story as related by came to Tacoma, Washington July 30, 1947 and arranged for a meeting the following day, July 31, with in his room 502, Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, Washington. also called to attend the meeting United Airlines Pilot who had also reported seeing flying disc fragments, and Army Intelligence to attend
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. 74 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.