Documents / FOIA release
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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"No wings but vertical and horizontal fins on rear of the rocket. *No visible means of propulsion such as propeller, vapor trail, smoke or exhaust. "The front of the rocket was very sharp with a needle nose, the needle looked about 6" long and was the size of a lead pencil. "The rear end was blunt similar to the rear end of a jet fuselage. "I was flying my ship ... and was traveling about 100 m.p.h. at the time. "I was at 3450 ft. above sea level at the time. "I was flying a compass course of 60 degrees, and pocket was traveling almost west at 240 degrees. "It happened about 2:45 P.M. on the above date. *The visability was exceptionally good, about 20 miles. "The yellow object looked very sharp and clearly outlined because of the dark green background. "If you will refer to the Huntington sectional aerial map this object was sighted over a very small town named Inbeck, which is about 4 miles direct west of South Parkersburg. "It appeared to have spent it's force and seemed to be dropping slightly as it passed by, or had been fired or launched from a higher altitude than the altitude I was flyi The above has been furnished to you for your information and in connection with the captioned matter.
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.