Description

Fred Crisman gave these samples to Kenneth Arnold, who turned them over to Major Sanders, of the AAF who was investigating Maury Island. Later they made their way to the be photographed at Army Air Force field in Hamilton, CA.

These are newly released in the May release of UFO files, on this PDF. They are categorized as an "Unidentified Substanced"

https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release\_1/65\_hs1-834228961\_62-hq…

Lt. Colonel Springer who wrote the report on August 12 said the case was currently pending, and distributed it to Seattle and Portland FBI offices.

Dispute that, and dispute apparently not following up on material analysis at all, the FBI via their internal memos decided it was a hoax soon after, based on what could have been coerced confessions of Crisman and Dahl imo, and Sanders visual comparison of the material to smelter slag (not a real analysis).

Also, digging into this document, it's pretty clear that the B52 that crashed was an unintended tragedy, not the result of some conspiracy. It is likelely the material about the plane was destroyed and the classified documents that the plane had were just notes of the 2 agents that had interviewed the witnesses as well as other ufo cases in the Pacific northwest prior.