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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…
- p. 46 ## C
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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Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer, Assistant Staff
Sir. Saw in the portland paper a short time ago in regards to an article in regards to the so called flying disc having any basis of fact. I can say an asteroid and was in the St. Adams district on June 24th the day of Boise Idaho claims he saw a formation of flying disc. And I saw the same flying objects at about the same time. Having a telescope with me at the time I can assure you they are real and noting like them. I ever saw before they did not pass vorry high over where I was standing at the time, plobly 1000 ft. they were round about 30 foot in dimater tapering sharply to a point in the head end in an oval shape, with a bright top surface. I did not hear any noise as you would from a plane. But there was an object in the tail end looked like a big hand of a clock shifting from side to side like a big magnet. There speed as far as I know seemed to be greater than anything I ever saw. Last voiw I got of the objects they were standing on edge Banking in a Cloud.
Yours respectfully
A TRUE COPY:
DOPALL L. SPRINGER
Lt. Colonel, GSC,
AC of 3, 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
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.