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Kenneth Arnold
9 declassified cases mention this, always in the body of the document rather than as an official record field. Documented incidents span 1947 to 1952.
2 agencies are involved: Department of War and FBI. The case files here include documents and audio recordings. None of the cases carry visible redactions.
Cases
| File ID | Date | Agency | Type | Pages read | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOW-UAP-D154 | 3/26/52 | Department of War | Document | 19/19 | This is a verbatim transcript of a March 1952 briefing given by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, newly appointed project engineer of the U.S. Air Force's reorganized UFO investigation (soon to be named Project Blue Book). Ruppelt traces the project… |
| DOW-UAP-PR160 | 3/26/52 | Department of War | Audio | — | This is an audio recording of a March 1952 briefing given by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, newly appointed project engineer of the U.S. Air Force's reorganized UFO investigation (soon to be named Project Blue Book). The recording opens with equi… |
| DOW-UAP-D181 | 4/28/49 | Department of War | Document | 3/3 | This short file concerns a sighting on the night of 28 April 1949 at Avalon, Catalina Island, California. It contains a Project 10073 record card, an Air Materiel Command routing form dated May 1949, and the handwritten letter that started… |
| DOW-UAP-D094 | 4/28/49 | Department of War | Document | 26/34 | This is Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79 / Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203, titled "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.," dated 10 December 1948 and jointly issued by the Directorate of Intelligence, Headquarters U… |
| DOW-UAP-D097 | 1948 | Department of War | Document | 44/45 | This is the initial report on Project SIGN, sent on 23 April 1948 by Headquarters Air Materiel Command (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) to the USAF Chief of Staff, attention Director of Intelligence, over the signature of Colonel H. M. McC… |
| DOW-UAP-D100 | 1947-1948 | Department of War | Document | 236/245 | A 245-page dossier of Air Materiel Command / Directorate of Intelligence correspondence on the Air Force's 1947-1948 "flying disc" investigation (later Project SIGN); 237 pages are legible and the rest are blank or redacted scans. Most of t… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 1 (1947) | N/A | FBI | Document | 129/185 | Section 1 (serials 1-52) of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Discs" file 62-HQ-83894, covering early July to early August 1947; many pages are blank backs or stamped enclosures. Press coverage of the first national wave (36 to 39 states, Army a… |
| FBI Flying Discs UFO file, Part 2 (1947) | N/A | FBI | Document | 121/194 | Section 2 of the FBI Headquarters "Flying Discs" file 62-HQ-83894 (serials 53-100), covering roughly July to September 1947; many pages are blank backs or enclosures. Main threads: (1) Maury Island, Washington. Seattle teletypes (6-14 Aug 1… |
| Maury Island UFO case, FBI Flying Discs file, 1947 | N/A | FBI | Document | 151/190 | Section 3 of the FBI Headquarters "flying discs" file (62-HQ-83894) covers August to early October 1947, the first weeks of the 1947 wave. Much of it concerns the Maury Island affair near Tacoma: Harold Dahl and Fred Crisman, who had sent r… |
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