The article below was published in the newspaper The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Philadelphia Enquirer, Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA, on page 2, on August 3, 1947.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2 (UP). -- Two fliers who were killed yesterday in a crash in Washington were intelligence officers returning here after talking with Kenneth arnold, Boise pilot, who first reported seeing the flying discs, Brig. Gen. Ned Schramm, Fourth Air Force chief of staff, said today.
Schramm said he believed that the men were not bringing back anything with them in their B-25 bomber, which crashed near Kelso, Wash.
An anonymous telephone caller told the United Press at Tacoma, Wash., that closely guarded fragments of a flying disc had been loaded aboard the plane before it took off from McChord Field, Wash., for Hamilton Field, Calif.
To: Kenneth Arnold or Newspapers 1940-1949.
