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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.
“Seattle”13 pages
- p. 18 …The Seattle Post Intelligencer stated that he went to the home of the Seattle Post Intelligencer…
- p. 20 …left Boise, Idaho and he had left Seattle, Washington. This time the caller admitted that there…
- p. 22 …At this time he asked if the Seattle Office was investigation the crash of the B…
- p. 23 …and that took to Berry's Airport at Tacoma and flew his plane to Seattle where…
- p. 25 …Drone back to Boeing Field near Seattle where he desired to pick up his own personal…
- p. 29 …About an hour after his arrival in Seattle, which was approximately 7:30 P. M., of…
- p. 30 …before Lawyer at the County-City Building, Seattle and made a deposition of the facts relating…
- p. 31 …in Seattle for a very brief time and the second time in Boise, Idaho when I…
- p. 33 …that I should like to pick up my car in Seattle. Mr. drove me to Boeing…
- p. 38 …and one Captain of United Airlines of Seattle, Washington to attend this meeting. and maintained they…
- p. 46 …Department of Justice, Seattle, Washington.
Attached summary form for your information.
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FBI, Seattle 1
FBI, San Francisco 1
ADF Files 1
- p. 54 …Brady with the Seattle Field Office, FBI, for records on The check on Mr. Criman was…
advised that he had been employed by the Atomic Energy Commission at Oak Ridge until 1943. He was entirely rational. He discounted the theory that a portion of a meteor had struck the house on the basis of the chemical analysis made by the City Chemical Laboratory.
advised that at the suggestion of the City authorities, he had written to and suggested that any further in- 67c quiries be directed to the State Police.
The file of the Philadelphia Office reflect that the records of Immigration and Naturalization Service were negative to an inquiry concerning OEM. The files of this office likewise reflect that by letter received August 14, 1947, 67C requested of this office the identity of a powder or dust used to catch thieves.
Inasmuch as there is no violation indicated within the Bureau's jurisdiction, there is no further investigation being conducted in this matter. However, the ash residue obtained from the is being forwarded to the Bureau Laboratory for any interest or study the Laboratory may desire to conduct relative to flares or in connection with the possibility of the presence of "flying saucers".
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 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.