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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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# Marine Here Snaps 'Disc' By LARRY BIRGER, Miami Daily News Staff Writer A strange "orange, yellowish object traveling at more than 23000 m.p.h." was photographed last night by a Marine cameraman watching from a Miami Beach home. Forty feet of film were taken of the object as it flashed across the sky, the Marine reported. However, showed any image. Only eight frames of the film. The "object," which observers said they saw for about three minutes and 30 seconds, was photographed around 9:35 p.m. by Pfc. Ralph C. Mayher, 22. of 60 NE 18th St., and Cleveland, O. Officials at the Marine Corps Air Station in Opa-locka released the pictures and information at 2 p.m. today without comment. initiative. He checked out the 16 millimeter camera from the BICAS yesterday afternoon. Chat From Patio The films were shot from the patio of the home of Herman Steva. 8200 Byron Ave. Stern and his wife two days ago reported spoiling "flying saucers" in the sky above their residence. The film showed a bowl-shaped image with a projection on top. The Leatherneck said he went to the home of the Sterns on a church. He was not acting officially for the Marines but on his own He had requested permission of the Sieros to watch the sky from their home. Along were his wife, Eleanor, and a friend. They arrived at the Siern home about 9:05 p.m. The object looked like a ball of fire. It was not clear enough, however, to be diagnosed as a flying saucer or meteor. Mayber said what he saw in the sky was "crystal clear" and that as fast as it was traveling, he not ed detail in the object or pho bomenon. Neighbors Shouted About 9:30 p.m. they heard neighbors shout, "Look there, in the sky!" For several seconds, Mayher recalled, "We saw nothing. Then an orange, yellowish - shaped object appeared. I pulled out my camera and shot about 40 feet of film." After more than three minutes, the object disappeared. Mayher said his wife and the friend saw the object, along with other residents in the area. The Marine then called the officer-of-the-day at Opa-locka, and be and a Public Information Office sergeant went to the Stern house and obtained the film. Marine officials at the Air Station had no comment to make on the photos. They stressed the fact that Mayher was acting in a nonofficial capacity. "All we did was process the film," one officer commented. MIAMI·DAILY NEWS Four views of the "flying saucer" that flashed over Miami Beach last night are reproduced here from the film taken by Marine Pfc. Ralph C. Mayher. The film was released without comment by Third Marine Air Wing officials. Miami Daily News artists did not retouch the "saucer" itself, which loses some detail in reproduction, but did retouch scratches on the film and designated the object with arrows. The photos show the "orange, yellowish object" was bowl-shaped with a projection on top. It speedily vanished, after being watched for more than three minutes. Blow up to 10 times its size from a 16-millimeter film negative, this is an unretouched photograph of an object seen by a Marine cameraman who was hunting for "Flying saucers" at Miami Beach # Photographed Object Is Called Plane's Light ## JULY 31 1952 The latest theory about the "orange, yellowish object" seen and photographed over Miami Tuesday night is that what was spotted was the front light of an airplane coming in for a landing at International Airport John L King, an aerial gunner during World War II, said today he is certain that what he saw in the vicinity of where the object was photographed by a Marine was the light from a plane ## Films To Washington A Miamian who works in the control tower at the field reported that a plane was due to land in Miami about 30 minutes after the object was seen in Surfside It was coming from the east, he added Pfc. Ralph Mayber, who was looking for "Mining counselor" only caught it in eight frames however. It was reported, meanwhile, that the pictures plus statements by Lt Cmdr. Joe Gardner, Lt. Joe Mill and Lt. I. M. Blum, Navy pilot who also said they saw the object will be turned over to the Air Force in Washington. ## "On A Hunch" "On a lunch" Mayher went to the Surfside home of Stern who two nights earlier had reported seeing an object in the sky traveling at great speed. Mayher photographed the object on 16-millimeter film. He said it was travel ing "more than 2,000 miles an hour." Marine officials in Miami re
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