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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.
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From: CCMGENARMYTHREE Ft McPherson Ga To: Dept of Army for Director of Intel Nr: AJACI-3-5 3206 9 Mar 50 Reour TNX AJACI-3-3 subject reported radar sightings over Oakridge, additional info indicates radar operator experienced and radar set has been modified so as to cast doubt on reliability of reading. Chief Tennessee Mil Dist recommends expeditious action be taken to determine whether an unknown object has reappeared over Oakridge in the past few days. Chief Security Div at Oakridge requested info as to channels of communication with Air Force in connection with radar sightings. Note: Ref 13 CM IN 12184 (4 Mar) G-2 ACTION: G-2 62-83894 218 RECORDED - 104 INFO: 0-3 CK IN 13022 (10 Mar 50) DT3: 0:14:20 0.10/3 20 MAR 1050 OCS FORM 1 JAN 50 270 52MAR311950 COPY NO. REPLACES DA SCO FORM 22-3, 15 JAN 49, WHICH MAY BE USED. U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT 175 0 865129
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 66 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.