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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 05
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 74 pages · text by GLM-OCR
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.
“Hamilton”19 pages
- p. 1 …Lieutenant Colonel A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, involving reported sightings of flying discs…
- p. 17 …Captain DAVIDSON and Lieutenant BROWN of Army A-2 Intelligence from Hamilton Field, California, all met…
- p. 20 …25 was carrying disc fragments returning to Hamilton Field, California and furnishing the inference that the…
- p. 21 …N, officers with Army A-2 Intelligence at Hamilton Field and that the fragments were top…
- p. 26 …Shortly afterward, Colonel BROYN called him from McChord Field stating that Hamilton Field had requested that…
- p. 32 …had made a telephone call to Hamilton Field to contact a Captain Davidson and a Lieutenant…
- p. 33 …Davidson were going back to Hamilton Field and that he would get in touch with me…
- p. 38 …According to them they called in army intelligence officers from Hamilton Field, California and one Captain…
- p. 43 …of A-2, Hamilton Field, California, dated August 27, 1947, with attachments reporting the sighting of…
- p. 45 HEALQUARTERS FOURTH AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Intelligence Hamilton Field…
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HEADMARTIN FIELD AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Intelligence Hamilton…
- p. 47 …departed NOCBORD FIELD at 0212 PST for HAMILTON FIELD, California. The weather was reported as CFR…
- p. 48 …B at HAMILTON FIELD but no answer was received; however, it was known that HAMILTON AFS…
- p. 51 …Intelligence Hamilton Field, California
Title Investigation of Flying Disc Investigation made at Taoons and Kelso, Washington…
- p. 53 …Widson returned to NaChord Field and prepared for a night flight to Hamilton Field. The weather…
- p. 56 OFFICE 4TH AIRFORCE HAMILTON FIELD CALIF.
SENT ARNOLD $200 TO GO TO TACOMA TO INVESTIGATE FLYING…
- p. 62 …of A-2, Hamilton Field, California. Even though Col. feels that Mr. may have read some…
- p. 67 …representative of the Air Force Intelligence, from Hamilton Field, California, and Special Agent with one Phoenix…
- p. 69 …Bureau Agent) and A-2 representative from Hamilton Field, California. The purpose of the interview was…
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Mr. Jones called up and said if I would call him at 8:30 that evening, he would have some additional information for me. I called Mr. Jones at 8:30 that evening. He told me that this anonymous caller had again called a Mr. Jones of the and said that one of the parties that Mr. Jones and I had come down to see was flown to Alaska. Also he made the statement Mr. Jones would be called to Wright Field Tuesday. This anonymous caller made the statement to Mr. Jones that this B-25 was shot down. Mr. Jones asked this person calling what his interest was. This anonymous caller made a statement - "Don't this I am doing it for the newspapers. All I am interested in is seeing that this information gets back to New Jersey."
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After I finished the conversation with Mr. I went over to the United Press and talked with Mr. and had him read back to me the conversations that he had had with this anonymous caller. But no opinions at this time were voiced either by me or Mr.
Sunday morning I called a Major of S-2 McChord Field and asked him to meet me at the Winthrop Hotel at 11 o'clock I met this Major at 11 o'clock and we drove to a small coffee shop on the Tacoma Highway where this complete story was related him by me. We then drove back to the Winthrop Hotel where Major was introduced to Mr. by me and again listened to Mr. story. Mr. and I departed from the Winthrop Hotel Sunday afternoon at approximately 4:30.
This is to certify that the foregoing statement was taken before me, a notary public; that prior to making said statement, the witness was first sworn to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth; that the statement was then reduced to writing and signed to me on the ___ day of August, 1947.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and offi seal the day and year last above written.
Cases discussed
- The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Boise, Idaho man who was the first to report sighting the flying disc came to Tacoma - The Maury Island Incident 1947
sighted six flying discs near Maury Island; admitted the material had no connection with flying discs - Rhodes UFO photographs ("shoe-heel" photos), Phoenix, Arizona, 1947 1947
photographs of a flying disc, which had been sighted and photographed by Rhodes; Phoenix - United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho 1947
United Airlines pilot saw objects July 4 on flight out of Boise, Idaho - Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings 1947
investigation conducted at the Muroc Flight Test Base, Muroc, California - The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
reports of flying discs across the US in summer 1947
About this file
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.