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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.
“The Pentagon”1 page
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Director Office of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D. C. APPEOPRIATE AGENCIES AND FIELD OFFICES ADVISED BY ROUTING SLIP(S) OF 20.00 There is set forth the following unverified information relating to the captioned matter which was furnished to this Bureau by a confidential source whose reliability is unknown and who has requested that his identity not be revealed. I was flying from ... to Parkersburg, W. Va. this afternoon (September 25, 1949) and about four miles airline southwest of Parkersburg, I suddenly noticed a bright yellow object coming directly towards me. It came at me with such speed, added to my 100 m.p.h. forward speed that it startled me and had passed by in a matter of a couple of seconds, but it passed by about 100 feet under my ship and about 50 feet to my right, and because of the dark green background of the forests below I was able to get a clear outline of the object, and what I believe is a very accurate description. Color = bright canary yellow Length = about 15 to 18 inches Diameter = about 4" in the largest
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.