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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 08

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 66 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file release gathers memos, teletypes and letters from 1949 and 1950 on flying saucer reports. Most of it covers a March 1950 claim by a Knoxville radio technician that his surplus APN-7 radar detected an object over Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Navy radar never confirmed the object, and Air Force examiners judged his equipment unreliable. Other items include a cardboard saucer hoax near Elmira, New York, a pilot's 1949 formation sighting in Oregon and a Denver claim of a crashed disc.

  • p. 15 …Also, immediately following this conference above stated, Special Agent OBI, called his headquarters at Murvell Field…
  • p. 17 …representatives of the 14th Air Force with headquarters at Greenville, South Carolina, had arrived in Knoxville…
  • p. 18 …He advised that he had been called by his headquarters, CIO, 3rd Army, Atlanta, Georgia, and…
  • p. 21 …stated he also conversed with 14th Air Force Headquarters at Greenville, South Carolina and advised them…
  • p. 33 …All information on this subject this headquarters has been turned over to A-2 Fourteenth Air…

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