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SIGHTED BY FR~ISMM! AND HAROLD ~L, TACotlA , ~N·: • ,
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REMYTEL AUGUST SEVEN LAST .
EMIL ~ITH, UNITED A!RLIMES
PI~OT , INTERVIEWED RE ASSOCIATIONS ijITH HAROLD A, DAHL , FRED C4RISMAN
AND KENNET1~ARNOLD IN TACOMA , WN . , FROM JULY THIRTYONE TO AUGUST THIRD
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LAST .
SMITH HAS RECEIVED PREVIOUS PUBLICITY FOR HAVINC SEEN FLYING
DISCS OR SIMILAR OBJECTS ON JULY FOURTH LAST IN CO~PANY WITH HIS CO­
PILOT , RAL~
EVEMS, DURING ROUTtiNE UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT OUT OF
BOISE , IDAHO .
SMITH RELATES THAT HE WENT TO TAC0t1A , WN . , FRot,1 SEATTLE
ON THURSDAY , JULY THIRTYONE LAST IN RESPONSE TO TELEPHONE CALL FROM
KENNETH ARNOLD AT TACOtA .
SMITH CLAir:s HE HAD PREVIOUSLY MET ARNOLD
ON TKO OCCASIONS , THE FIRST TIME ON JULY FIFTH LAST IN OFFICES OF
SEATTLE POST- INTELLIGENCER HHERE BOTH WERE INTERVIEWED RE FLYING
THEY HAD SEEN, ANO ON SECOND OCCASION IN BOISE, IDAHO, ABOUT .THREE
\-!EEKS AGO \.Jl.{ILE HE , SMITH , WAS PASSING THROUGH ON ROUTINE FLIGHT •
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THIS LATTER OCCASION , ARNOLD iJAS HJ CO>IPANY OF CAPTAIN1 DA'VIDSQtJ
AND LIEUTENAITT DRGJ;TN,
ARMY INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS ,
AND
\1J'"OMNSOM OF THE IDAHO STATESMAN NEWSPAPER .
SMITH CLAH'S NO
ACQUAINTANCE WITH DAHL OR CHRISMAN .
SMI1H RELATES THAT ON
JULy THIRTY ONE LAST IN TAC01,1A' WN . ' THE DAHL /\ND CHRIS;jAN ·sroRY' WHICH
BOTH HAVE SUBSEQUENTLY AD~ITTED TO BI FALSE WAS TOLD TO S~ITH~ARNOLD ,
CAPTAIN DAVIDSON , AND LIEUTENANT BROUN BY C1iRISMAN AND DAHL ,
SUBSEQUEST
TO T'HS INTERVIEW, CHRISMAN GAVE CAPTAIN DAVIDSON AND BRO\iN A BOX OF
FRAGMENTS WHICH THEY A~Yls TOO}( WI~H THEM ON
FATAL FLIGHT.
SMITH STATES ...IlLA, ON !~•T)JiHMY·, :AliC.t!S1Z'F:J:.R~J LAS7,
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,•'\/AFTER LEARNING or THE CRASH AMD DE(\ TH OF DAVIDSON AND BROUN , AR 1oLD
C!LLED RAYitflNi,;..PALMrn , EDITOR OF Tll~~TllnE PRESS IN EV1!8TON, IL:.INOIS
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AND WAS TOLD BY PALMER TO DISCON~,Ni~ HIS INVESTIGATIO
O THE DAHL­
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