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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.
“United Press”7 pages
- p. 19 …He stated that he talked to the United Press Wireman, Tacoma, who advised that the story…
- p. 21 …N would be taken to Wright Field Tuesday morning and that a United Airlines pilot by…
- p. 24 …It should be noted that Captain United has previously received publicity for having supposedly seen flying…
- p. 35 …I went over to the United Press and talked with Mr. and had him read back…
- p. 37 …The "Tacoma News Tribune" and through them the United Press put out a story that the…
- p. 38 ## FLYING DISCS
The "Tacoma News Tribune" and through them the United Press put out a story…
- p. 51 …and conversations with Major Sander, that a United Press correspondent, of the Incom Time, was instrumental…
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HEADMARTIN FIELD AIR FORCE Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, A-2 Intelligence Hamilton Field, California
4AFDA
353.5/1209-1
2 August 1947
SURJECT: Investigation of Flying Disc.
TO: Special Agent in Charge, FBI, " G. Department of Justice, Seattle, Washington.
Attached summary form for your information.
1 Incl: Summary of Information.
DONALD I. SPRINGER LL. Coronel. GSC AC o S. A-2
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
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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.