UR EXPERIENCED PILOTS WHO WERE AMONG FIRST WHO REPORTED
SEEING DISCS--____ TO ASCERTAIN THE PURPOSE OF THE INTERVIEWS ____
CONTACTED MAJOR GENERAL TWINING OF WRIGHT FIELD, OHIO BY PHONE AT
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, AND FROM HIM GAINED THE IMPRESSION THAT THE AAF
INSTITUTED THIS INVESTIGATION TO WASH OUT THE DISC REPORTS, SINCE THEY
ARE DEFINITELY NOT OF AAF ORIGIN. ON FRIDAY, AUGUST FIRST, THE PLANE IN
WHICH AAF INVESTIGATORS CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND LT. BROWN WERE RIDING,
CRASHED AT KELSO, WASH. AND BOTH WERE KILLED. THE WRECKAGE WAS SCREENED
BY AAF INTELLIGENCE FROM MCCHORD FIELD. THE TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE AND
THROUGH THEM THE UNITED PRESS PUT OUT A STORY THE PLANE WAS CARRYING
PARTS OF A DISC WHICH HAD STRUCK A BOAT OWNED BY HAROLD DAHL AND FRED
CRISMAN, TACOMA, WN. ____ ADVISED THAT TODAY'S ISSUE OF THE OREGONIAN
CARRIES A UP STORY STATING THAT DAHL DENIES SAYING THE METAL FRAGMENTS
HE FURNISHED WERE FROM A DISC, AND ANALYSIS OF THE FRAGMENTS SHOWS THEM
TO BE FROM A TACOMA SLAG MILL. NO AAF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL AVAILABLE
PORTLAND. NO RECENT SUBSTANTIVE REPORTS OF FLYING DISCS IN THE PORTLAND
AREA. SEATTLE VERIFY AT MCCHORD FIELD AND SAN FRANCISCO VERIFY AT AAF
HDQRTS. SF, SUBMITTING TELETYPE SUMMARIES TO THE BUREAU. NO FURTHER
INVESTIGATION PORTLAND.

BOBBITT

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[Handwritten: b7C
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cc Mr. Ladd.]

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

_Office Memorandum_ . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO : D. M. LADD DATE: August 6, 1947

FROM : ____

SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS

Special Agent ____ of the Liaison Section contacted Lieutenant Colonel
____, Army Air Forces Intelligence, inquiring about an article which
appeared in the West Coast newspapers recently stating in substance
that an airplane carrying recovered flying saucers crashed in route
from Portland, Oregon, to Los Angeles, California.

____ advised ____ that the only information that has been received by
Headquarters of the Army Air Forces is that a CIC Agent of the 4th Air
Forces Headquarters, Hamilton Field, San Francisco, was killed in an
airplane crash. The Headquarters of the Air Forces have been advised
that he was on a top secret mission. ____ indicated that he was under