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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 05
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 74 pages · text by 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.
“Seattle”13 pages
- p. 18 …The Seattle Post Intelligencer stated that he went to the home of the Seattle Post Intelligencer…
- p. 20 …left Boise, Idaho and he had left Seattle, Washington. This time the caller admitted that there…
- p. 22 …At this time he asked if the Seattle Office was investigation the crash of the B…
- p. 23 …and that took to Berry's Airport at Tacoma and flew his plane to Seattle where…
- p. 25 …Drone back to Boeing Field near Seattle where he desired to pick up his own personal…
- p. 29 …About an hour after his arrival in Seattle, which was approximately 7:30 P. M., of…
- p. 30 …before Lawyer at the County-City Building, Seattle and made a deposition of the facts relating…
- p. 31 …in Seattle for a very brief time and the second time in Boise, Idaho when I…
- p. 33 …that I should like to pick up my car in Seattle. Mr. drove me to Boeing…
- p. 38 …and one Captain of United Airlines of Seattle, Washington to attend this meeting. and maintained they…
- p. 46 …Department of Justice, Seattle, Washington.
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- p. 54 …Brady with the Seattle Field Office, FBI, for records on The check on Mr. Criman was…
Harbor, Washington, to the effect that had some flying disc fragments. At this time admitted to that the entire story was false.
Relative to the statement that he was paid by of the and possibly the to come to Tacoma and obtain a story from them regarding the flying disc fragments.
On July 31 and August 1, a total of five anonymous calls were received by a and the at Tacoma giving information regarding the meeting at the Winthrop Hotel over the disc fragments and stating that the B-25 had been shot down or sabotaged which killed Captain Davidson and Lieutenant Brown, inferring that this was done because the intelligence officers were carrying disc fragments in their plane.
stated that these calls could only have come from themselves, who, they stated, had a friend on the Chicago Times and was possibly selling the story to the Chicago Times through this friend. denied making these calls.
upon interview, stated that reporter of the Tacoma Times and of the in Tacoma had informed him that he had several anonymous calls and from the accuracy of the information transmitted believes they were made by either
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 under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 74 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.