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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TO : Director, FBI _FROM : SAC, San Francisco DATE: September 4, 1947 SUBJECT: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS AIRMAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY Enclosed is a copy of a letter dated August 25, 1947, with attachment from Lt. Col. of A-2, Hamilton Field, California. Even though Col. feels that Mr. may have read some of his claims in a newspaper, Col. believes that Mr. should be interviewed in this matter. In accordance with Bureau Bulletin No. 42, dated July 30, 1947, Portland is requested to exhaustively interview Mr. Portland, Oregon, regarding his alleged sighting of a "flying disc" on June 24, 1947. Copies of the result of this interview should be furnished the San Francisco Field Office for distribution to the 6th Army Intelligence. DWK:MR Encls. 2 62-2938 cc Portland (Encls. 4) - AMSD info d majin mi d b7c RECORDED INDEX 135 34 SEP 23 947 R - 3149
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.