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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 169 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 4 …Department of the Army, Headquarters, U.S. Army Intelligenes and Security Command Ft. George G. Meade…
  • p. 39 …Department of the Air Force, Headquarters, Air Force Office of Special Investigations advised that the attached…
  • p. 50 …Trooper Rymer was interrupted twice during which times he called his headquarters in an attempt to…
  • p. 51 …Ground 3 cc Headquarters, Third Army 1 cc OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 cc FBI, Knoxville, Tennessee…
  • p. 57 …He knew of no practice mission by higher headquarters but said he would call EALF (Eastern…
  • p. 62 …This information was phoned in to Headquarters immediately by the undersigned. About fifteen minutes after the…
  • p. 71 …This letter is to confirm spot report given your headquarters on 13 October 1950. Beginning at…
  • p. 91 …The following pages were referred to the Department of the Air Force, Headquarters Air Force Office…
  • p. 111 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 2, 1965 --which had headquarters at Washington, D. C…
The Literal-minded FHI, skeptical but determined could not lot the flying saucer excitement go by without getting to the bottom of it. Such a profusion of strange objects littering the American skies was too important to ignore.

A 10-page report by the nuclear physics branch of the Office Naval Research, has given the answer.

Flying saucers were, and are, undeniably real.

Cases discussed

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 169 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.