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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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make the following foluntary statement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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In the early part of Jun. 1947 we picked up some strange rock formations from a gravel pit on Laury Island, Washington. We sent a box (cigar) of these fragments to of Venture Magazine at Evanston Illinois to have it analyzed.
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Later wrote and asked for additional samples stating that he had failed to have them analyzed.
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Around the later part of June a few days after the first disc stories started contacted us by phone. He told us not to tell the newspapers out the fragments and he would pay for an exclusive story if the fragments could be from a flying disc.
One of us told hi: the fragments could have been from a flying disc.
Just after our phone conversation wrote a letter to setting out some notes etc. regarding the fragments and indicating they could have come from flying discs. 6.7c
The next thing we heard was about the first of July when we got a Trans Ocean Press telegram from Chicago asking not about these flying disc fragments. We told them to forget the entire matter.
The next we heard of these fragments was when we were called by to meet with him in the Winthrop Hotel on July 31,1947
We told him exactly how we had found the fragments and had forwarded them to to be analyzed.
The above is the entire and true story as regards our connection with the flying disc stories etc. which originated over the cre samples which we sent to be analyzed.
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.