Arnold met Fred Crisman, who told a story of a flying saucer which spewed debris. Arnold relayed the details of the case to Lieutenant Frank Brown, the military's flying disc investigator, who had previously interviewed Arnold about his sighting. Brown and an aide flew to Tacoma, where they met with Crisman, who gave them a cereal box containing alleged flying disc debris. Returning to base in California, the pair were killed when their plane crashed near Kelso, Washington.Peebles, Ch.2G. Arnold, Ch. 11 The following day, press accounts revealed that a "mysterious telephone informant with uncannily accurate information" had contacted the United Press of Tacoma. The caller claimed that the crashed B-25 had been loaded with flying disc fragments; the caller further claimed that flying saucer witnesses Kenneth Arnold and E.J. Smith had been "in secret conference" at Tacoma's Hotel Winthrop. General Ned Schramm of the fourth air force publicly acknowledged that the deceased pilots were intelligence officers who had traveled to Tacoma to meet with original saucer witness Kenneth Arnold.
Arnold met Fred Crisman, who told a story of a flying saucer which spewed debris. ,Arnold relayed the details of the case to Lieutenant Frank Brown, the military's flying disc investigator, who had previously interviewed Arnold about his sighting. Brown and an aide flew to Tacoma, where they met with Crisman, who gave them a cereal box containing alleged flying disc debris. Returning to base in California, the pair were killed when their plane crashed near Kelso, Washington.Peebles, Ch.2G. Arnold, Ch. 11 The following day, press accounts revealed that a "mysterious telephone informant with uncannily accurate information" had contacted the United Press of Tacoma. The caller claimed that the crashed B-25 had been loaded with flying disc fragments; the caller further claimed that flying saucer witnesses Kenneth Arnold and E.J. Smith had been "in secret conference" at Tacoma's Hotel Winthrop. General Ned Schramm of the fourth air force publicly acknowledged that the deceased pilots were intelligence officers who had traveled to Tacoma to meet with orig,inal saucer witness Kenneth Arnold.