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FBI file on Fred L. Crisman (Maury Island, 1947)

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In June 1947 a harbor patrolman said six doughnut-shaped craft dropped slag on his boat near Maury Island. The FBI kept a file on the man who backed the story, Fred Crisman. Read it here, as scanned pages.

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Made byFederal Bureau of Investigation
Issued byFederal Bureau of Investigation
Date1947
LanguageEnglish
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RecordProject Blue BookBetween 1947 and 1969 the US Air Force logged 12,618 UFO reports. When it closed the files, 701 still carried the label unidentified. Even its own scientific consultant later mocked it as a society for explaining the uninvestigated. What did the Air Force conclude, and what do the unexplained cases actually mean?

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