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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 ## Page #2 100 feet in diameter, circular in shape, and it appeared that there was a hole in the center of each as he could see the sky through this hole. He also mentioned that on the inside of the circle or the hole, that portholes were visible. Their speed was negligible as they appeared to hover over a given spot. One of these objects appeared to be in trouble. Another object came over and appeared to make contact. After making this contact for approximately two minutes, it rose to its original position. ## b7c At this time the object that appeared to be in trouble seemed to throw a lot of debris from one of the portholes. These objects then disappeared from view. Some of this debris that landed broke in the wheelhouse of the boat, the spotlight, and the klaxon. While this debris was falling, my boy and Mr. got off the boat and hid under some logs. This debris that fell killed our dog and a sea gull. I asked Mr. what was done wit the dog. He made the statement they threw the dog into the water. ## 67c This story was told to Mr. who the next day went out to this Island to check on this story. He verified the fact of the damage to the boat, also to the fact that there appear to be quite a few pieces of either rock or metal on the shore. Mr also stated that while he was over there investigating on Maury Island, he also saw a disk. This disk was of the same shape and contour as the objects explained by Mr. At this point Mr. clarified for me as to the reason he was investigating this story. Mr. stated that he received a letter from a Mr. Evanston, Illinois. The gist of this letter was that Mr. received a letter from Mr. and Mr. also a package of these fragments that were found on Maury Island. Mr. also made the statement in the letter that the Chicago University failed to analyze these fragments and that would Mr. please investigate the story. Mr. was sent a Western Union check for $200.00 to take care of any expense that he might incur while making this investigation. Mr. had made a telephone call to Hamilton Field to contact a Captain Davidson and a Lieutenant Brown, who were with A-2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field, asking them would they make a trip to Tacoma to also listen to this story of and When Mr. acquainted me with the fact that he had made this phone call in front of Mr. Mr. made the statement that he would not tell this story to anybody in Army Intelligence. I made the statement to Mr. that if he felt this way, that he should not be in the room when these two Intelligence officers arrived. Mr. thought this was an excellent idea.
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.