65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 003

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~MDARD FORM NO. G4
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~ Office Men~~,•o;,,,dum • UNITED • GOVERNMENT
65- 477
Dir ector, FBI : August 27. 1947
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F~TG DISCS SIGHTF"1 BY .
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SECURITY ,~ATTER - X
Re Seattle teJsAugust 7, 1947 . and Pugust 12, 1947, in the above
captioned matter.
K:ENNET"'lNiP"r,TOL'\ Route 1 , "ountain View Drive , Boise, Ida.ho, was inter
viewed at the B~is;)esident Agency , Boise, I daho , by SA J0SEPF E. JETTE on
August 19 . 1947. Hr . AR~0LD advised that he received a letter from RAYHCTJl) A.
PALMER, Editor , Venture Press , Evanston , Illinois, dated June 26, 1947, in which
Mr . PAU':!:R advised thet he was interested in publishing an article in his magazine
concerning the flying discs seen by J{r . AP'~T0Ln near ~'ount Rainier on June 24 , 1947,
which letter is being enclosed to the Bureau . vr . AF~0LD stated that he did not
give nruch thourht to PALMER' s letter until PALHER wrote him again and informed
him that FRET" ' iRISHA.'tlT and HAR0L"' A• ..,AHL of Tacoma, Washington , had sent him
fragments of a flying disc and that he would like hiro (ARN0Ln) to go to Tacoma,
Washington, and contact CHRISMAN and DAHL to find out if there was any truth in
A their story about the disc fragments . He ste.ted that he did not answer pAI,i~ r s
~ letter, but inquired of sever al friends for their opinion in the matter , and
C that they all tol d him if PALMER desir ed to pay his expenses to go to Tacoma,
i=, Washington, and look into this matter, that they did not see where he had anything
r-< to lose. He informed that he gave a talk at the Boise Ad Club on July 25 , 1947,
< about the flying discs he had seen, and also of the request contained in PALMER's
t5 letter to go to T~coma to investigate additional information regarding the findh
iing of d;i.sc fragments by CHRISMAN and DARL.
3...)C'-'~ • ~AR!rnLn advised that following his talk , he was approached by a person ) ~
who said he lmew both CHRISJ~~ and DAHL and that they were very reliable
individuals . He stated that after thinking it ovor , he called PAI,MEP by telephone
and at which time he informed PALMER that he would contact CflRIS~W1 and DAHL and
investigate the matter regarding the disc fragments , if P~L'flER would send him
~200 . 00 expense money . He also advised that he received l200 .00 expense money
from PALHER via Western Union the next mor ning . He informed that he left for
Te.come., Washington , vie. his personal plane on July 30, 1947 . Upon arriving at
Pendleton, Oregon , he told his story to E~CH. CM- lns_pector from Portland,
Oregon, who advised him to go e head with his.J-nve~tfifat~on . ~1 I). f _ Jf/
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He stated that he l anded at Barry s Airport 3li coma ::!Fd o~ ine a:_a
room at the Winthrop Hotel. He informed that he then ca e 3Q-rr.S Ei:P :t4li~-Pi]one to
make arrangements to talk to him regar dinr the~~c 1r ~ ts . He advised that
~lHL insisted on coming to the hotel room innneai" e l j . --v~''r/e.rriving at Wr. AR 0LD' s
hotel room, lAHL stated that he wanted to forget a~q_uj; th~ discs as too many things
had been happening to him , and advised J(r . ARl'0L1-"~'r-~\fn home and forget about
the discs. lfr. AFJ'0LT stated that he informed JAHL that he wanted~otain allo
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