FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

gaucer reports where the object flashos past in a blur during 10-15 seconds of observation. Included in the story are 3 suspicious facts which suggest saucers were active, if they were not observed. The apparently regular flashes of light in the eastern sky suggest signals but was conveniently ascribed to a thunderhead cloud, as no thunderstorm could be located. The 'auroral' light seen appears doubtful while they might be seen any day in the year, they are rare in August, particularly at this latitude, and seems a weak identification. The third fact, a 'spot of light' seen crossing the sky at a speed greater than the balloon speed, at dusk, seems to be the real saucer report, as none of the airports watching the balloon mention that they had any aircraft coming in to land or intercept the balloon at Hagerstown. Also an airplane would be nearly invisible, and its navigation light would appear more as a pinpoint, intermittently flashing rather than a 'spot'. The activity surrounding this report resembles the Sept. 19 1950 balloon the floated over Missouri 6 hours, and was followed the next day by a 3 giant 'meteore' that flashed down from Idaho to Colorado to Illinois and 1 from Tennessee; also the Feb. 13* report where a saucer was seen watching a balloon over Alamagordo. Apparently, they are interested in terrestrial balloons.

#20 Homewood, Pe. Shape marks it as no known aircraft, speed much too great for aircraft, too slow for meteor as it was carefully watched from horizon to horizon by many residents, and was noiseless as most saucers;

#21 Norway; A rare rocketship object. It is very doubtful the Russians would need to experiment with their top secret rocket missiles near foreign countries, with their own vast barren areas in Siberia. Even if they had such a need, their long past history of secrecy of jet and rocket missiles and aircraft make it doubtful whether they allow it. It has taken us 'only' a year to get parts of a FIG 15 from Korea as they do not allow flights even near the border, while I have clippings of about 6 Russian aircraft from US flying magazines where even the identification numbers are confused - each one with 2 or 3 numbers, because even photographs are nearly impossible to obtain. Another possibility may be one of the Swedish guided missiles being tested although firing the over Norway does not seem neither a safe nor friendly testing procedure. This report probably a rocketship related somehow to the saucerships.

Shiraz, Iran; This is included not as a saucer report, but as something possibly connected with them, in the same manner as the unexplainable falling iceblocks and falling airplane. Considering this item did not attain much prominence in the newspapers, and the lack of history of such 'meteoric storms', it appears more as a badly reported, violent hailstorm rather than anything else.

#22 Malone, V.Y.: Typical raucor observation, made while an airliner was in the air, and which would preclude the possibility the observer mis-identified a conventional aircraft.

#23 Lubbock, Texas; First of 4 groups of gigantic saucers, possibly arriving direct from Venus, with conjunction 2 weeks later. Observed by a Texas Tech. professor, the first of 5 professors to see objects.

24, 25, 25 Lutbock, Texas: This set of reports are probably the most authentic and most important report yet made. Seen and timed by 3