He was contacted by Air Force intelligence.
The Air Force had only been incorporated weeks before.
But the story ended in tragedy with the two Air Force intelligence officers who were transporting the wreckage in a, I think it was a cargo aircraft.
Shortly after leaving a meeting with Kenneth Arnold, two Air Force investigators who worked with military intelligence boarded a cargo plane with fragments retrieved by Dahl and examined by Arnold.
It became amongst the very first fatalities of the U.S. Air Force when the plane crashed and they were both killed, and the UFO material vanished with them.