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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.
“Kenneth Arnold”10 pages
- p. 1 …KENNETH ARNOLD came to Tacoma, Washington July 30, 1947 and arranged for a meeting the following…
- p. 2 …KENNETH ARNOLD, Captain EMIL J. SMITH, FRED CRISMAN, HAROLD DAHL, Captain DAVIDSON and Lieutenant BROWN of…
- p. 4 …he received an anonymous phone call in which the caller stated that KENNETH ARNOLD and Army…
- p. 5 …and ARNOLD knew about the flying disc fragments story from the time that KENNETH ARNOLD left…
- p. 6 …disc and that Captain EMIL SMITH and KENNETH ARNOLD were not interested in the rock formations…
- p. 8 …CRISMAN stated that KENNETH ARNOLD wanted to obtain pictures of the place where the rock formations…
- p. 9 …This record reveals that KENNETH ARNOLD on July 31 called PALMER at AN-5200, Evanston, Illinois…
- p. 10 …Lieutenant BROWN in room 502 with KENNETH ARNOLD. ARNOLD met them at the door and seemed…
- p. 19 …The next we heard of these fragments was when we were called by KENNETH ARNOLD to…
- p. 20 …Thursday I received a telephone call from Tacoma from a Kenneth Arnold. The gist of this…
Signed statement of Fred L. Crisman and Harold A. Dahl
Re: FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY FRED CRISMAN and HAROLD A. DAHL Tacoma, Washington SM - X
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