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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 169 pages · text by GLM-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. 141 …12 1946 Providence Bay, Siberia. Huric fiery-white object crossed over. IV. Tincs May 1945 Venus…
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AUG. 1, 1951 10:00 PM? (Dark) FAGERSTOWN, Maryland. 45° Lat, 71° Nor. Flashes of light approximately at regular intervals came from eastern sky, and was described to a thunderhead cloud SOURCE: Fagerstown Morning Herald Aug 2, 3

11:00 PM? (Dark) WAGERSTOWN, Maryland. 45° Lat, 77 Long Aurora or northern light appeared on horizon. SOURCE: Karebstown Morning Herald Aug 2

AUG. 2, 1951 9:00 PM? (Thursday) POMEJOOD, Penna. $ 4 0 \frac{1}{2} ^ {\circ} $ Lat, $ 8 0 ^ {\circ} $ Long. Clear or oval-shaped, self-luminous object sound noiselessly across sky from horizon to horizon in 60 seconds. SOURCE: Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph Aug 2; Pittsburgh Post Gazette Aug 2

AUG. 12 1951? Daytime? NORTERN FORWAY. 68°Latitude, 16° Longitude. Aerial Object resembling a rocket guided missile, carried over 4 fishermen from direction of the Artic. SOURCE: NY World Telegram and Sun Aug 15.

AUG. 13 1951 Near Shiraz, Iran. 30 $ ^{\circ} $ Latitude, 53 $ ^{\circ} $ Longitude Falling meteors' killed 300 sheep, cows, donkeys, 12 persons injured 19 people, and flattened 62 buildings. SOURCE: NY state newspaper.

AUG. 20 1951? Near VALONE, New York. $ 4 5^{\circ} $ Latitude, $ 5 3^{\circ} $ Longitude. Larger silvery ball-like object at great height crossed sky at great speed travelling eastward. SOURCE: MASSENA Observer Oct 8

A group of floating objects in an uneven crescent formation, crossed sky at great speed, observed by the Journalism Professor of Texas Tech. SOURCE: DALLAS Morning News Aug 27

9:10 PM. (Saturday) LUBROCK, Texas. $33^{\circ}$ Lat, $102^{\circ}$ Long. A group of glowing objects in uneven crescent formation (resembling a string of beads), noiselessly crossed sky in 3 seconds, from Northeast towards southwest. Depending on approximate heights estimated from 5,000 to 50,000 feet, their speed was between 1,800 mph, and 18,000 mph and size of each object was between 1,000 and 10,000 feet in diameter. Reserved by 3 Texas Tech professors with astronomical training at a meeting, and a German teacher from Texas Tech elsewhere in same city. No known jet planes in flight.

SOURCES: NY World Telegram & Sun Aug 27; FATE Magazine Jan. 1952; AMARILLO Daily News Aug 27; Dallas Morning News Aug 27; Lamesha Daily Reporter Aug 27.

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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.