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7 if August 14, 1947 A 5 3 FLYING DISCS : The "Tacoma News Tribune" and through them the United Press put out % a story that an amy plane which was allegedly carrying parts of a disc which as had struck a boat owned by Harold Dahl and Fred Chrisman had crashed on August = 1, 1947, killing two Air Force Intelligence officers who were ioterviewing te. persons Bho were alleged to have seen flying discs. P ad we a: aa when interviewed by Bureau Agents, ~ advised in a signed s ment on August /, 197, that in the early part of June, . # 1947, they picked up some strange rock foruations from a gravel pit on iiauri ON Islund, Washington./ They sent a cigar box of these formations to one (yD a pose ae» Chicago, Illinois. According to them they requested QD , a hemical analysis of the rock formations. then wrote h je dditional samples stating he had been unable to analyze the materialé em.rked that a few days after the flying disc stories appeared uring the latter purt of June ontasted them by telephone saying he would pay for an exclusive story if the materials they had sent him were fragments of a flying disc. aid he wrote Wea letter in which he represented the material as being a part of a flying disc, and bot and admitted that this statement was entirely false. a aia i dmb. anc Qeulime.then received a call fron one aut, 3: . at eomnleae etat Be ML ee if LOUIE Wil Poise, Idaho who requested then to meet him at the Winthrop Hotel July 31, 19:7. According to then @iMBpealled in arny intelligence officers f from Hamilton Field, California and one Captain f United Airlines Wi maintained of Seattle, Washington to attend this meeting. the intellicence officers Captain Davidson, Lieutenant Er organ Si exactly how they got the rock formations and that they “had no connection with any flying discs. @@jpand stated that they then furnished some of the rock formation to the intelligence officers as samples. they told ee Gaptain Davidson and Ideutenant Brown left Tacoma, Washington in a B-25 te return to Hamilton Field, California about 2:30 A.M, August 1, 19,7, and were “skilled when their plane crashed at Kelso, Washington, after the left engine burned out an exhaust stack which in turn caught the left wing on fire which caused each officer rachuted to safety. B42 Bez thee alll mh, nae a Vide 1ne Crew chief ang @ucn O1ficer parachutrea Y iV WwW oF ; 7 | 7 er rpragsraereranrecarcesarerraraiee Tacoma advised that two or - thred days after the flying disc story started he contac todd to check tha story COPIES DESTROYED ~270 NOV 18 1964 _ re ee ee’ a - weeds . eon. __ sw me ee ris oF . at Pie! a ay 5 ‘ ? ve i eel dee cae ee ee a eter Ls ti ir Sa 8 fale , ee we * * ain det he At ead ail “