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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.
“Kelso”11 pages
- p. 16 …officers was shot down or sabotaged over Kelso, Washington on August 1, 1947 because it was…
- p. 17 …The plane crashed at Kelso, Washington approximately 2:50 A.M. August 1, 1947.
Five anonymous…
- p. 19 …that the B-25 which crashed at Kelso, Washington on the early morning of August 1…
- p. 21 …At this time the caller stated that the B-25 which crashed at Kelso, Washington was…
- p. 37 …and Lieutenant Brown, were flying, crashed at Kelso, Washington and both were killed. The wreckage was…
- p. 38 …August 1, 1947, and were killed when their plane crashed at Kelso, Washington, after the left…
- p. 43 …of A-2 investigation at Tacoma and Kelso, Washington.
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162 - 8 = 194…
- p. 47 …Clark, local sheriff of KELSO, Nash., that the scene of the crash was fifteen (15) to…
- p. 48 …LITTRELL departed in a C-45 for KELSO. At 0745 PST Sq. B was contacted by…
- p. 49 …C., to KELSO. An ambulance dispatched from MCCHORD FIELD, met them at KELSO, and was led…
- p. 51 …Intelligence Hamilton Field, California
Title Investigation of Flying Disc Investigation made at Taoons and Kelso, Washington…
It is noted that the original Boston teletype reflected that this inquiry was being treated as "secret" matter at MIT. has advised that the comparatively small number of research scientists at MIT during the summer are all cognizant of the incident and the results of the research. However, no publicity has been given and it is not anticipated that any will result. The Bureau's interest is not known to the scientists at MIT. There has been no speculation that a guided missile originating in a foreign land landed in New Hampshire.
As indicated above, unless the Bureau requests specifically further investigative action, this case is being closed in the Boston Office.
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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.