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August 19, 1947 refuse to furnish any further information, On August 5, 1947 Special Agent DAVID A.-MacCULLOCH was contacted in the resident agency. office, Tacoma, Washington by PRED CRISMAN. At this time GRISMAN asked if the Seattle Office was investigation the crash of the B-25 and he was informed that no investigation was being conducted by the Seattle Office. CRISMAN at this time related in a rambling story that he had picked up some strange rock formations which he had forwarded to a friend of his in the University of Chicago to have amalyzed and that later, in some manner unknown to him, these rock formations had been reported as being frag— ments of a flying disc. On August 7, 1947. FRED es HAROLD DAHL 1 viewed at the Tacoma: resident agency office, Both DAHL and CRIGMAN a6 denied any knowledge of how the rock ficuatious which they had picked u have alalyzed became corinected with the flying disc stories. Both denied making any statement to anyone that these rock formations were portions of a dise fragment. It was apparent from the start of the interview that DAHL and CRISMAN were not telling their complete ‘and true connection with the flying disc. story. They refused to give any definite information as to what they said or had done which caused them to become involved in a flying disc story, but gave evasive answers and repeatedly SyaREC that they had nothing to do with it and were at a loss to understand how they became connected with the flying disc story... After conside spable questioning, they stated that in the early part of Jun hey sent to RAY PALMER of thf Ziff-Da avis Publishing Company which published th6\Fantasy magazine in Chicago and the Venture magazine in Bvanston, Illinois, some rock formations which bhey ha d , FOU on Maury Island. They stated they sent these formations, asking o have them analyzed. They stated that later PAIMER wrote and asked for more samples, advising he had failed to analyze the samples, CRISMAN and DAHL stated they have never sent any additional samples and that the next they heard regarding the rock formations which they had sent PALMER was when he called HAROLD DAHL and asked if the rock formations could have come from a flying disc. DAHL stated. he made some remark that they possibly could have come from a flying dise and that he immediately sat down and wrote a letter to PALMER, which was in the latter part of June in which he stated the material could have been portions of a flying disc. DAHL claimed that he thought he told PAIMER over the phone something about being in his boat when he obtained these rock formations, but .stated he could not recall what he had written to PALMER and claimed that he passed the whole thing off as a joke, CRISMAN and DAHL were questioned at length in an attempt to obtain specific information as to exactly what each one had done with regard to the rock forma- tions. However, éach stated that the only thing they had done was tell RAY PAIMER the formations could have come from a flying disc in view of the fact it appeared "that's what he wanted them to say", No definite information could be obtained from either DAHL or CRISMAN as to what each specifically had done to start the flying disc story, CUT ANT wi statement which was obtained from CRIS An and