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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. 63 …Location of stability, object (before to Dulce (F-2) Baudougal Clart). Sources' location of objects were…

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The valley through which source from north, and the object is south, is roughly 12 miles wide. The flank of the valley is between 400 to 500 feet in elevation. The east side of the valley is dominated by Hart mountain (5000 feet in elevation). Just above source on an elongated oval which are an almost linear drop of around 1000 feet. The bluff, and all the terrain, against which source on the object is quite dark in colour. The objects stood out in contrast to the dark color. The objects appeared to impaired vision.

in elevation. From where sources can the object (a) 500m elevatethroughly onlinethrough the side of the bluff (7000'). Learning the objects 1 to 3 miles away from the bluffs, they were probably flying at about 5000m alt, and about 5/10th above the valley faces.

The valley where bodies sighted the objects is especially popular, there are a number of routes there - more than are indicated by Boise (7-2) astronomical chart. Sources believe that if persons living in the valley were questioned, chances are several that be found the same objects from the ground. Sources have shown through this valley many times going between California and Oregon and does not recall any having seen another airplane in the valley where no sighted the objects. The valley not a commercial airway route, and is saloon used by private pilots. So does not recall ever seeing any aircrafts on the dirt roads in the valley known as such on the Boise (7-2) section of Astronomical Chart.

Historic formation of objects, at the beginning of observations that the objects were a few degrees to the standard of dead air, could not distinguish separate objects - all he saw were reflections; then as he came closer and passed then by 5/2 to 7/2 miles he definitely saw 6 of separate objects. To be on the safe all source sources with positives that there were no less than 5 objects and no more than 20.

The objects were always in file formation (one behind the other) and there appeared to be no change in altitude of the formation. The area between the lead object and the auxiliary was three or four times the size of one of the objects. The distance between the second and the following objects was between one-half and two-thirds the length of the objects. Accordingly, if the objects were 20 in length, the distance between all was 60 to 60 feet, and the distance between 2 and the others was between 10 and 17 feet. The distance between the objects appeared very consistent, objects were so close and appeared to keep their formation spaced in a way which indicated they might have been taken by the leading object. At the distance of sighting, no connection, if there was any, could possibly be observed. Sources in positives that the objects were attractive objects were also able to see terrain between them. The formation did not fluctuate flightly the objects for very early and cloudily. Then, sources that the objects were going out of visual range on the horizon, were further and visibility at time of observations, visibility was exceptionally good. Sources could see, later, lake, 30 miles distant, and see much rising from the surrounding at Burns, Oregon, 75 miles distant, here a few scattered clouds of between 1000 and 13,000 ft. The position of the wind inflated localized clouds at 18,000 ft. The air and program normally the air in the area is light to mildly turbulent. The wind was of source that is, sources place one between the sun and the objects.

Location of stability, object (before to Dulce (F-2) Baudougal Clart). Sources' location of objects were first

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