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FOIA Case 2025-00044-C

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This FBI FOIA release, obtained via MuckRock, contains a July 11, 2018 FBI referral letter to the Air Force about Emma Best's request for records on Fred Lee Crisman. The referred material is a 1947 Army Air Forces A-2 intelligence investigative report on a flying disc incident reported at Tacoma, Washington. The agent inspected Dahl's boat and found no trace of damage. The file also holds a July 22, 1947 Venture Press letter asking a pilot to investigate the Maury Island story.

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flattened similar to a deflated automobile innertube. They were judged by Wahl to be approximately 100 feet across with a 15 foot opening in the center. The outer edge of the object had round portholes and the inner ring had square windows or portholes. The dices were silent and from his viewpoint he could see no means of propulsion. One of these dices appeared to falter and water in the air, another of these aforementioned five dices dropped down close to the dice that appeared to water and bumped it, dumping "toms" of the stuff as pictured in inclosure 3 to 7 on his boat, knocking off the handrail, horn, and generally damaging the boat to the extent of $200,000, and killing Wahl's dog.

AGENT'S NOEK. This officer, in the company of , boarded the aforementioned boat where it was docked in the Incom harbor on 6 Aug 47. A hand rail was missing, but the area where the hand rail was previously fastened had been painted over with several coats of paint and was cracked by the weather. The deck and roof of the cabin was of a very thin construction and the cabin further had glass on the front and sides. It is this officer's opinion that if any of the objects presented by wahl as samples of the material dropped by the flying disc had hit this boat, it would have certainly been necessary to replace the foredeck and the cabin roof. These two areas were very heavily coated with several coats of paint and had deep weather cracks that would take several months to acquire.

who came the boat and operates a shoreline water patrol for various business firms, evidently visited the area at Mury Island to check Iahl's story. He is supposed to have stated that he found the material that he presented to in Brown and Capt Davidson in a sand pit near where the incident was supposed to have occurred. While he, was at the scene of the incident, a flying disc came out of the clouds and behaved in a similar manner as the ones previously described.

AGENT'S NOTE: The witnessing on two occasions, in broad daylight, of an object as large and clearly visible within several miles of the city of Tacoma certainly should have been seen and reported on by other than Cahl and Griseman. A check was made of the newspaper on and after El June and no mention could be found of a mysterious object appearing over the Tacoma harbor.

is supposed to have sent samples of the objects that he picked up in the Emory Island sand pit to a friend of his at the University of Chicago for an analysis report. He is reported to have not received the analysis report.

AGENTS NOTE It is possible that the Mr. A. reference inclosure 1 and 2 might have come across this incident through the University of Chicago.

The interrogation of by was completed about midnight on 31 July/1 August. and returned to KeChard Field and prepared for a night flight to Hamilton Field. The weather was clear with a bright moon shining. They departed approximately 0800 hours and crashed at approximately 0830 hours on 1 August 1847. (See Inclosure 8).

4. On 6 August 47, this officer, in the company of resident agent, Income Federal Bureau of Investigation, attempted to

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