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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 ## 67c ## Page #4 Friday the 1st: At approximately 8 o'clock in the morning, Mr. called up our hotel room and acquainted us with the fact that the B-25 had crashed. Also that he had called McChord Field and from information he received also verified the fact that the two men in the ship were Capt. Davidson and Lieut. Brown, plus a flight engineer and a hitch-hiker. This left both Mr. and myself in a very bad state of concern. Approximate ly an hour later Mr. and Mr. made their appearance in the hotel room. I still wasn't sure that this was the same B-25 that the two Intelligence officers had left in last night. Mr. then again called McChord Field and talked to a Colonel and the fact was verified again that the two pilots were Davidson and Brown. ## 67c After an hour or so Mr. and Mr. left the hotel room with a plan in mind of the four of us meeting the next morning (Saturday) for breakfast and going out to Maury Island. That evening (Friday) there was a message for me to call this particular telephone number that was on the message. I call this number and was asked by the party to please call them from a paystation. This party was a Mr. a on the He told me, "I most certainly am doing myself out of a good story but I thought you ought to know that somebody has been calling this paper and giving us a blow-by-blow description of all that has taken place in your room since you arrived." To verify this, Mr. repeated back to me discussions that I felt had only been taking place in our room. ## 6.7K Mr. also made the statement that there was a leak either from the switchboard operator or our room had been tapped. I asked Mr. why he was tipping us off with this information. He made the statement that he didn't mind doing this if in return that any information that I may let out would be given to him. After this conversation with Mr. I went back to our room and told Mr. what took place on the telephone. ## 67c Saturday morning: Mr. and I met Mr. and for breakfast. We then drove out to the boat to go to the island. The boat was unserviceable at the time so we went back to the hotel. Mr. said that he would call later on in the day and let us know when the boat would be repaired. That was the last time I saw Mr. ## 67c Approximately 11 o'clock Saturday morning Mr. phoned me and made the statement it would be impossible for him to keep this appointment with me. We were cut off by the switchboar operator as this was classified as not an emergency call. The reason we were cut off was due to a strike in all the Tacoma hotel.
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.