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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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PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED From: CONGENARMYTHREE Ft McPherson Ga To : Dept of Army for Dir of Intelligence Nr : AJACI-3-3 3206 Reference our TNX AJACI-1-2, and the supplementary report follows: 1. (A) At 2130 hours on 2nd May radar station picked up 2 objects 310 degrees, altitude 80000 feet, approximately 18 miles from Knoxville in general direction of Oak Ridge, moving in circular motion but in opposite directions. (B) At 2230 hours 2nd Mar and again at 0030 hours 3rd Mar station picked up object, moving same direction locality and altitude. (C) Density of object similar to DC-3 airplane, speed not established but report as "terrific". 2. CIA Radar Technician reportedly arrives Knoxville today to check radar set and operation. 3. Arrangement reportedly made by FBI with Naval and Marine Reserve Unit Knoxville to set up radar equipment to verify reception of WRQL radar station. 4. All information on this subject this headquarters has been turned over to A-2 Fourteenth Air Force. Note: AJACI-1-2 13 CH IN 12036 (3 Mar 50) G-2
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.