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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.
“Gray”19 pages
JUNE 29 1951? Daytime? TEN THOUSAND ISLAND area, FLORIDA. 26° Lat, 81° Long. Object resembling a small plane fell into sea. No known aircraft missing, and widespread search found nothing. #15 SOURCE: ST. PETERSBURG TIMES JULY 2 JULY 6, 1951 6:25 - 6:29 AM. LYNCHBURG, Virginia. 37½° Lat, 79° Long. Sky Clear. A bright orange disc-like object hovered; high in sky, suddenly zigzagged about, then appeared to roll on edge as it moved westward in a straight course without any visible exhaust and audible sound. #16 SOURCE: LYNCHBURG NEWS SEPT 26, personal letter. JULY 7, 1951 Evening. LOS ANGELES, California. 34° Lat, 116½° Long. Brilliant motionless light hovered high in sky. Later, a pale circular disc appeared under it, and then both objects suddenly moved southward, with disc leading. They suddenly changed direction, and light now led disc. Then the light blinked on and off 4-5 times, went out, and disc moved away at great speed. #17 SOURCE: FATE VACATING NOV 1951 letter section. JULY 30 1951 12:00 PM (MONDAY) PAGERSTOWN, Maryland. 45° Lat, 77½° Long. Bright light high in sky moving slowly in northwest sky. #16 SOURCE: Pagerstown Morning Herald Aug 7 AUG. 1, 1951 Morning (WEDNESDAY) CLEVELAND, Ohio. 41½° Lat, 51½° Long. Unknown object at 35,000 feet was apparently intercepted by 4 airplanes, and tentatively identified as a weather balloon. SOURCE: Detroit Free Press Aug 2 AUG. 1, 1951 Morning (WEDNESDAY) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. 41° Lat, 80½° Long. Some aerial object sighted. PITTSBURGH PRESS AUG 1 AUG. 1, 1951 Afterhoon (WEDNESDAY). BUTLER, Penna. 41° Lat, 80° Long. Silvery sphere approximately 150-200 feet wide, intercepted at 45,000 feet by group of jets, identifying it as a weather balloon. SOURCE: MY Daily News AUG 2 AUG. 1, 1951 7:30 to 9:00 PM. (WEDNESDAY) PAGERSTOWN, Maryland. Oblong silvery object with reddish and bluish edges, and possibly carrying 2 lights, moved slowly from northwest to southeast. Feight calculated from different airport simultaneously as 19,000 feet, 77,000 feet, and 72,000 feet. SOURCE: Pagerstown Morning Herald Aug. 2 AUG. 1, 1951 8:50 PM? FREDERICK COUNTY, Maryland. 30½° Lat, 77½° Long. Eagle object seen, but becoming dimmer. SOURCE: Pagerstown Morning Herald Aug 2 AUG. 1, 1951 9:00 PM? (Duck) PAGERSTOWN, Maryland. 45° Lat, 77½° Long. A small luminous object crossed sky at speed greater than silvery object. #19 SOURCE: Pagerstown Morning Herald Aug 2
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.