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August ti, l<:14?
I:uffi<,L:) A. D.ri.HL and FRED C.rlL.........i... mal~e the follor;rng f'oluntary st teront
to ~J-1. L.-1.VID .,•• •..AC m.. LLtel. of the Feder 3.l Bureau 01· I nvestigation.
I c the eii~' r ar t <.." June l ~"'i' \ e 1icked up some strange rock f or;1iations
fro. a gravel pit on lli8ury I sland , 11ashington.
,1e sent a box (cigar)
of these fragments to RAY PAili.lER of Venture kagazine st Evanston I llinois
to have it anal yzed.
Later P.AIMER wrote and asked for aduitional samples stating that he had
failed to have them analyzed.
Around the later purt of June a few days aft er the first disc stories
start ed ~AIMER cont acted us by phone.
He told us not to tell the news­
papers a:iout the f r agments and he would pay for an exclusive story if
the fragments could be from a f l ying disc.
One of us tol d hir the fragr.ients could have been from a flying disc.
Just after our phone conversati on HAROLD DAHL wrote a l etter to RAY
PALMER setting out some notes et c. regarding the fragments and
indicating t hey coul d have come from flying discs.
The next thing we heard was about the fir st of July when v1e got a
Trans Ocean Press telegram from Chicago asking lmll:t about these flying
disc gragment s .
We tol d them t o gor get t he entire mat ter.
The next we heard of these fragments was when we were called by
KENNETH ARNOLD to meet wt.th him in the Wint hrop Hotel on llluly 31,194?
We t ol d hin exactly how v;e had found the f r aements and had forwarded t hem
to FA.llll!R to be a nalyzed.
The above is the entire and true story as regards our connection with
the flying disc st oriee etc. ·w
riginated over the ore samples whi ch
we sent to be analyzed.
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