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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

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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.

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  • p. 5 …Director, FBI DATE: August 16, 1949 FROM SAC, San Antonio I am attaching hereto a number…
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  • p. 47 …Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1 oo FBI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 oo OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 oo File
  • p. 50 …1 oo FBI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 cc to Security Division, ABC, 1 cc File 65=58…
  • p. 51 …OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 cc FBI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 cc Security Division, AL 1 cc File
  • p. 53 …1 cc FBI, Knoxville, Tenn. 1 cc OSI, Knoxville, To 1 cc File
  • p. 54 …1 cc FBI, Enoxville, Tenn. 1 cc OSI, Knoxville, Tenn. 1 cc File
  • p. 55 …1 cc FBI, Knoxville, 1 cc File
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  • p. 95 …926051 SEARCHED INDEXED SERIALIZED FILED JUL 10 1950 FBI·OKLAHOMA CITY
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AUG. 2h 1951 9:15 PM? (Saturday) LUBROCK, Texas. 334° Lat,102° Lorz. Similar group of objects in same type formation observed sky travelling in same direction. Second photograph taken showed 18 luminous objects on film. SOURCES: Same as report #24

AUG. 25 1951 9:15 PM. (Sunday) AMARILLO, Texas. 350 Lnt., 1060 Long. 2 self-luminous pinkish objects, one apparently on ton the other, crossed sky at a speed greater than any jet plane, travelling southwesterly. SOURCES: Amarillo Daily News Aug. 27

AUC. 25 1951 9:20 PM. (Sunday) AKARILLO, Texas. $ 7 5 ^ {\circ} $ Lat., $ 1 0 6 ^ {\circ} $ Long. 5 self-luminous pink objects in uneven formation, crossed sky at speed greater than a jet plane, travelling southwesterly. SOURCE: Amarillo Daily News Aug 27

SEPT 7, 1951 10:00 AM. Near Grayline, Michigan. 444° Lat, 859 Long. Object resembling an airplane apparently exploded in air, and then crashed on ground. No known planes missing, none found, and airforcebase nearby claimed its personnel had fired a flare into sky about same time. SOURCE: NY Telegram & Sun Sept 5; Grand Rapids Press Sept 7; Traverse City Record Sept. 7.

1:00 AM. (Sunday). Near PHOENIX, Arizona. 334°Lat,112°Lo. A bright light (resembling a large etar), hovered over Southern Mountain, then carted left, then right, for several minutes. SOURCE: Phoenix Gazette Sent. 10,11: Fate May Jan 1952

1:00 AM. (Monday). Near PHOENIX, Arizona. 334°Lot,112°Lon A bright light (resembling a large star), under telescopic observation was found to be a large brilliant light, with 2 smaller equally brilliant lights on either side (now resembling a diamond brooch). It flashed from green to blue to amber at regular intervals, as it hovered, slanted right and left, circled, and made long swooping onaces over Carmelback Mountain. SOURCES: Phoenix Gazette Sept 10,11: Fate Mgr. Jan 1952

SEPT 11 1951 1:00 A.M. (Tuesday). Near PHOENIX, Arizona. $ 3 7 4 ^{o} $ Lrt,112 $ ^{o} $ Lo Some bright light hovered over Camelback Mountain, fleshed from pale sea green to icy blue to amber with a hint of red, as it hovered, darted about and made swooping ones over area. SOURCES: Phoenix Gazette Sept. 10,11: Fate Mrz.Jan 1952

SEPT 11 1951 11:35 AM. (Tuesday). FROM SARDY HOOK TO FEDRAK, N.J.

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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.