Documents / FOIA release
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.
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# Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO Director, FBI - AIR MAIL FROM SAC, San Francisco SUBJECT: REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS DATE: August 26, 1947 There are being transmitted herewith to the Bureau photostatic copies of three reports received from Lieutenant Colonel A-2, Fourth Air Force, Hamilton Field, California, involving reported sightings of flying discs. The Los Angeles Office is being furnished with a photostatic copy of the report of Lieutenant Colonel dated August 18, 1947 concerning the investigation conducted at the Muroc Flight Test Base, Muroc, California. The Butte Office is being furnished with a photostatic copy of the report of Lieutenant Colonel dated August 20, 1947 which sets forth a letter received from Mr. Helena, Montana. This office is maintaining contact with Lieutenant Colonel and will furnish the Bureau with a subsequent report from him concerning the observations of Mr. Sacramento, California, who has reported certain observations which he believes may involve a flying disc at Placerville, California, on August 14, 1947. HMK ;EMB Enclosures - 3 cc Los Angeles (with enclosure) Butte (with enclosure)
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.