Documents / FOIA release
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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O Cbpy Subjects: Final Kission Report 5. STATISTICAL SUMMARY a. GROUND ACTIVITY (1) Total man hours by ARS Personnel in field 72 (2) Total man hours by other Army Personnel (estimate) 300 (3) Total man hours by civilian personnel (est) 150 (4) No. of miles driven by Army Vehicles 500 b. AERIAL ACTIVITY (1) Total No. of sorties flown 3 (2) Total hours flown by Army aircraft 6 c. LOCAL PURCHASES (1) None c. COMMENTS a. Cooperation received from all civilian agencies concerned complete and excellent. 7. RECOMMENDATIONS ROBERT H. MASONISNER Captain, Air Corps Commanding Officer CONFIDENTIAL
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.