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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.
“Wilcox”1 page
- p. 30 …Very truly yours,
JB Wilcox
ENCLOSURES
DAM;PHL:TEK
Special Agent in Charge
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## SECTION 4
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 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.