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Kenneth Arnold FBI file: full transcription

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The following is a direct transcription of key passages from the July 1947 Army Air Force Counter-Intelligence Corps report on Kenneth Arnold.

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Mr. Arnold is a man of 32 years of age, being married and the father of two children. It is the personal opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Arnold actually saw what he saw. To go further, if Mr. Arnold can write a report of the character that he did while not having seen the objects that he claimed he saw, it is the opinion of the interviewer that Mr. Arnold is in the wrong business, that he should be writing Buck Rogers fiction.

This file compiles correspondence, newspaper clippings, and internal memoranda regarding the nationwide flying saucer phenomenon, including witness reports from multiple states and official commentary on the events, alongside inter-agency communications between the FBI and the Army Air Forces regarding investigation protocols.

This transcription covers the core credibility assessment of Arnold himself and the FBI's own description of its file's contents. The Twining Memorandum of September 23, 1947, which concluded the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious and directly preceded Project Sign's creation, is covered on this site's Project Sign page.

Document: Army Air Force Counter-Intelligence Corps report on Kenneth Arnold, Officer Frank M. Brown, July 1947.

Document: FBI flying saucer file, 1947. FBI Vault.

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