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Winthrop hotel.
Arnold remembered him saying that they would have the slag analyzed
for the sake of being thorough but that he wanted us to take a drive
with him. He was going to show Arnold and Smith thousands of tons
of this stuff. Major Sander had gathered up all the pieces and piled
them on top of several towels. He started to bundle them up, stopped
short, and said, “We don’t want to overlook even one piece.” I handed
him my piece.”
    Arnold said, “This Major Sanders is a pretty smooth guy, but he’s
not smooth enough at this point to convince me that these fragments
aren’t pretty important in some way.” I suddenly felt that no one had
played a hoax on anybody - COS p.77
We drove clear out on the point of the peninsula. Soon we arrived at a
large sign that read Tacoma Smelting Company. There were literally
piles of lava like smelter slag. “At first glance it looked identical to the
fragments Major Sander had taken from our room.
I guess Major
Sanders is right someone has played a hoax on us.” - COS p.77 “It looked a lot like the fragments we had been handling in our rooms
--I thought it looks like the same stuff but it doesn’t feel like the same
thing. The smelter slag that I picked up looked more like the box of
supposed fragments that Crisman had given Davidson and Brown”
    COS p.78
The FBI report stated McChord Intelligence Officer informed Public
Relations officer had received a call from Army HQ in Washington
D.C requested to obtain a signed statement from Dahl and Crisman,
which could be published to publicly close matters.
    The FBI in their report said they would “set a trap for Crisman” who
at the time was sent to Alaska. Whatever “the trap” was, Crisman was
to next appear in Tacoma’s FBI office August 5 th , three days later
asking if the Seattle office was investigating the B-25 crash.
    4:30pm Smith and Arnold checked out of the Winthrop Hotel and
decided to visit Dahl one last time. Arnold gave directions to Smith
who was driving. When they arrived, Arnold was amazed the house
was empty and vacant with cobwebs and did not look like someone
had lived there for months. Arnold verified the corner lot, the porch,
the door handle, and the aerial antenna coming from the window as all
the same when he had visited the house a few days earlier. Arnold
even had Smith drive around in case he mistook the address but they
did not find any similar houses.
Arnold and Smith left the area
perplexed.

Aug 4, Monday Noon - Lantz
was contacted by Dahl
and
    Crisman. Lantz stated to the FBI that he contacted Harold Dahl who
advised Lantz if this were not used in the paper, he and Fred Crisman
would meet him after lunch. Lantz stated that about noon Dahl and
Crisman contacted him and stated the he Dahl and his son had been
exploring a gravel pit on Maury Island and found some strange rock
formations. They picked up some of these samples and Fred Crisman
later saw the samples. Crisman sent these to a friend of his (Palmer?)
to have analyzed. They stated that they received a report and that his
friend had asked a newspaperman
to
check out where the rock
formations were obtained. Both Crisman and Dahl informed Lantz
that sometime after the first flying disc story had appeared, they
received a telegram from Trans-Ocean Press from Chicago wanting
information on the flying disk fragments. Crisman stated they had at
no time indicated the rock formations were a part of a flying disc and
that the military and Arnold were not interested in the rocks.

Aug 5, Tuesday
    Fred Crisman walked into the Tacoma FBI office and asked if the
Seattle FBI office was investigating the crash. They said they were not.
Crisman was reported to have offered in a rambling story that said he
had forwarded some rocks to Univ. of Chicago to have them analyzed
and that in some manner unknown to him, the rocks were reported as
being fragments of a flying disk.

Aug. 7, Thursday
    Dahl and Crisman were interviewed at