Documents / FOIA release
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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## C stating that Captain DAVIDSON and Lieutenant BROIN were the Intelligence officers that were killed in the crash of the B-25 and that civilians and the sheriff had been kept away from the wreckage with the Army guarding it. He stated the anonymous caller then said that the names had not been released yet by the Army and that this would verify his statements. stated that the following morning, Saturday, August 2, the Army verified that the officers killed were Captain DAVIDSON and Lieutenant BROIN and two days later verified that they were Army Intelligence officers. stated that the anonymous caller again later contacted calling him by that name, and at this time stated he did not call the In this call the anonymous caller stated that, "Don't think I'm doing this for you." He then asked if the story had been put on the wire and when said yes, the caller stated, "We want this to get back to New Jersey." The caller further stated that the B-25 was shot down by a 20 m.m. cannon and that the marine plane which was recently found wrecked on the side of Mt. Rainier, having been missing for several months, had also been shot down. The caller stated to the caller that he should get in touch with a flyer named with United Airlines who, he stated, was with the caller when they were shot at over Montana. The caller then stated, "I'll see you Tuesday. I'm going to San Francisco." The caller stated that he had checked with United Airlines who denied knowing any pilot by the name of the pilot denied ever having flown over Montana. The caller stated that he received another anonymous call in which the caller stated that he would be sent to Wright Field on Tuesday and that Saturday one of the men who found fragments of the flying disc was to be flown to Alaska. The caller stated that in view of the fact that the information as to the Intelligence officers on the B-25 had been as furnished by the anonymous caller, had subsequently been verified by the Army, the story was released that the B-25 was carrying disc fragments returning to Hamilton Field, California and furnishing the inference that the plane had been sabotaged or shot down. The caller stated that about 8:00 P. M. on Sunday, August 3, he contacted the Public Relations Officer from McChord Field, all afternoon until about 3:45 P. M. The caller informed that he had told the Army authorities everything that he and knew about the flying disc fragments story from the time that the Boise Statesman left Boise, Idaho and he had left Seattle, Washington. This time the caller admitted that there were some of the supposed disc fragments in the room at the Winthrop Hotel and that the Army had been in the room Thursday afternoon. On Monday the caller stated that he called who advised that if this were not used in the paper, he and
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. 74 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.