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FBI file: Kenneth Arnold
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This FBI file, a report from the Seattle field office to the FBI Director dated August 1947, covers the Maury Island flying disc story told by Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl. It says Kenneth Arnold looked into the story for Ray Palmer, and that Army Intelligence officers Davidson and Brown died when their B-25 crashed at Kelso carrying the supposed fragments. The FBI found no sign of sabotage. Crisman and Dahl admitted the material had no connection to discs, and the report names Crisman as the most likely anonymous caller.
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- p. 1 …FLYTING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED CRISMAN and HAROLD A. DAHL; TACOMA, WASHINGTON SM - X
Dear Sir…
- p. 2 …July 31, 1947 and discussed the flying disc story as related by CRISMAN and DAHL. The…
- p. 3 …DAHL and CRISMAN deny, however, that they actually started the flying disc story and their actual…
- p. 4 …to Tacoma to check on the flying disc stories with DAHL and CRISMAN, that ARNOLD should…
- p. 5 …This time SMITH admitted that there were some of the supposed disc fragments in ARNOLD's…
- p. 6 …CRISMAN and DAHL told LANTZ that sometime after the first flying disc story had appeared, they…
- p. 7 …Both denied making any statement to anyone that these rock formations were portions of a disc…
- p. 8 DAHL and in which they admitted the rock formations had no connection with any flying discs…
- p. 9 …received publicity for having supposedly seen flying discs or similar objects on July 4, last while…
- p. 10 …While relating the incident DAHL mentioned that he had taken pictures of the flying disc which…
- p. 11 …be some truth in the current flying disc stories, but that their immediate superiors (presumably A…
- p. 12 …by him that a discussion regarding flying discs had been taking place in room 502 at…
- p. 13 …which was, "Were they carrying any alleged disc fragments on the plane?" and Smith answered, "Yes…
- p. 17 …FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED CRISMAN and HAROLD A. DAHL, Tacoma, Washington SM - X
- p. 18 …FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED CRISMAN and HAROLD A. DAHL Tacoma, Washington SM - X
- p. 19 …Around the later part of June a few days after the first disc stories started PALMER…
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