Documents / FOIA release
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1949 Army intelligence reports of unidentified aerial objects seen around Camp Hood, Texas, forwarded by the San Antonio office, which told the Director it was reviewing and destroying such reports unless they held FBI interest. It also has 1957 FBI liaison memoranda on a radar-tracked object near Montauk Point and Benton, Pennsylvania, judged unlikely to be a Soviet operation. The file also includes a civilian Flying Saucer Researchers release arguing that saucers probably come from Mars.
“FBI file”18 pages
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REC-32 62-82059-1972 DL10Z Date8 August 15, 1961 To: Office of Special Investigations Air Force Attention Chief, Counterintelligence Division From: John Edgar Hgover, Director Subject: REPORT OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT CARLISLE, PEINSYLVANIA, AUGUST 8, 1961 MISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING (NATIONALITIES INTELLIGENCE) There is enclosed a copy of a letter received by this Bureau from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, dated August 10, 1961, which is self-explanatory. By letter dated August 15, 1961, was advised by this Bureau that the matter discussed in his letter was within the jurisdiction of the Department of the Air Force. was also advised that a copy of his letter was being furnished the Department of the Air Force. We are taking no further action in this BY COURIER SVC. 28 AUG 1 C COMM-FBL Enclosure JFW: jag q+q (5) DE DE DE Tolson ___ 2 R1 AUG 16 1961 NOTE: Assistant Director Sullivan knows as a retired businessman connected with Dickinson College, Carlisle, and vehemently anticommunist. Bufiles contain a clipping from the "Los Angeles Times" of 4-1-61 in which described as is listed as a council member of the John Bird Society, Bufiles also indicate that Masland in 1957 wrote a 5 GAUG 22 1951 TELETYPE UNIT NOTE CONTINUED ON PAGE 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. 169 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.