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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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## C STATE OF WASHINGTON 88 COUNTY OF KING 67c and says: being first duly sworn, on oath, deposes This is a narrative statement as to what took place in Tacoma from Thursday, July 31 until Sunday, August 3. ## 67c Thursday I received a telephone call from Tacoma from a The gist of this conversation was that he thought it would be a good idea for me to come to Tacoma and listen to the story of two men whose names were This had met two times previous -- once on July 5 at the office of the P.I. in Seattle for a very brief time and the second time in Boise, Idaho when I was passing through on one of my trips. ## 67c In this conversation with on the phone, I made the statement that it would be impossible for me to go over to Tacoma due to my going out to Salt Lake City the next morning. He said that he would fly over from Tacoma and pick me up at Boeing Field I agreed to this proposition from At 4 o'clock I met at the Boeing Field and we flew back and landed at Barry's Airport. We were picked up at the airport by who drove the two of us into the Winthrop Hotel. We went up to Room 502 -and asked him would he come up to the room. A half hour later made his appearance. At this time there were four men in the room asked Mr. ## 6.7C to relate his story as to what took place on June 24. Mr. was very hesitant about telling the story to me. and Mr. were already aware of the statements that had ma previous. Mr. made the statement to me that if any statemen he would make relative to his story, if I would keep it confident for two weeks, that he felt definitely that I would want to forge the whole thing. I made the statement to Mr. that as far as was concerned, I would keep any statements he made to me confiden for at least two weeks. ## 67c Here is story: On June 24 (this date to be chec later) he was in a boat owned by who owns the Harbor Patrol in Tacoma. They -- Mr. a Mr. and Mr. son age 16, were cruising around Maury Island looking for logs that had broken away from booms. They were fairly close to shore of Maury Island when they saw four or five objects in the sky at an altitude of approximately 1500 feet. He said these objects were
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.