Re recovered object determined to be a weather radiosonde, not a parachute
Interviewed 3 December 1971Dictated 4 December 1971
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Id: Cooper-Part-91:287-287
Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-91:287-287 Document: FD-302 re recovered object determined to be a weather radiosonde, not a parachute Id: Cooper-Part-91:287-287 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A287-287 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 91 p. 287 (DB Cooper-40674), FD-302 interview, interviewed 3 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-336 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-91%3A287-287
FD-302 (REV. 3-17-69)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Date December 6, 1971
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Corporal [REDACTED], Oregon State Police (OSP), was telephonically contacted at his office and provided the following information:
On December 3, 1971, about 4 p.m., he recovered a parachute from a ponderosa pine tree on Rigdon Main Road about 25 miles south of Oakridge. The writing on the parachute indicated that it was a weather type parachute. The letters on the parachute were "RADIO-SONDE" with number F4-0096HR and indicated it was a weather type instrument package.
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PARACHUTE
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On 12/3/71 at Eugene, Oregon File# PD 164-41-336
by SA [REDACTED] :mp Date dictated 12/4/71
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DB Cooper-40674
Serials: PD 164-41-336