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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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5 copies per $1.00 10 copies per $2.00 Make subscriptions payable to is the first civilian research magazine, established July 1951 POLICY 48 issue for February 195 P r t e d January. 22. 195 Last saucer reports are welcomed. All typewritten copy in this issue is COPYRIGHTED. Reprint permission can be obtained only by writing Theories of Aircraft, Balloons, Littlemen, Meteors, Mirages, Moonbeam Radar Air Inversions, and similar impractical ideas will not be used, other than to remove such reports from authentic reports. Authentic reports will be studied on the factual basis that they are caused by craft of one or more extra-terrestrial races. Standards are listed below # Is This Object, Seen In Passaic, A'Saucer'? Flying saucer? That's what is, according to John H. Riley, a professional photographer, of 571 Main St. He said he snapped these two pictures near 221 Brook Ave., Passale, about 10:15 m. yesterday, as the disc hovered 200 feet above the ground." Photo at left, Biley said, shows disc tilted "as though observing the ground." At right, he said the disc is shown shortly before it gathered speed and disappeared. John H. Kiley, 28, of Main St., is a photograph who believes a picture worth a thousand words as the saying goes. Go into The Call of he came last night, as phones rang with rep of flying saucers in area, to produce ph graphic evidence, acc ing to him, that there such aerial objects. He thumbed through dozen or so pictures of mysterious thing he a he and friend, George Stock, spotted yesterday morning near Stock's ho at 221 Brooks Ave., N sale. According to Riley, saucer was traveling so east at a leisurely sp when it was sighted Bstock. As it drew near Riley said it came alm to a complete stop a hovered overhead, ab 1200 feet from the gro CONTENTS 200 feet from the groo for several moments. "It was so near," K said, "it could have b hit with a rifle." Pesf He described the dis He described the dist being 30 feet in diam and grayish in color w a large dome jutting fi its center. Riley said cancer made no son sancer made no son Section 1 - Listing of all reports in chronological order, commentary Section 2 - Analysis of reports for possible behavior patterns. Section 3 - Credit for all cippings sent in, permission to reprint the Section 4 - Special features of reproduced photos, sketches, clipping also special reports of landings, alleged landing attempt PERFORMANCE STANDARDS OF CONVENTIONAL OBJECTS Aircraft: All are T shaped, none circular: only a dozen flying wing types now flying: only helicopter can hover, very few available to Balloons. Balloons: Moves very slowly to vision: cannot travel at great speed, but only at local wind speed: cannot sharply maneuver; not silvery. Meteors: Duration about 3-6 seconds. 15 seconds rare: daytime report extremely rare: has only one path, cannot maneuver usually luminous Missiles; Has fuel for few minutes only: all are tubular in shape: not
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.