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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 169 pages · text by 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.

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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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16. Sound and odor:

17. Trail (color, length, width, porsiatonco, otc.)

Blue - white, broadening with distance from nucleus.

18. Luninosity (visible by reflection, incandescence, other - degree of brilliance):

Bulleus was extremely brilliant; trail much less so.

19. Projections (fins, wings, rods, antennae, canopies, etc.):

20. Manouvers (turns, climbs, dives, otc. - skotch of flight path): Climbed in are, rather slight, angle of climb about $ 1 5^{\circ} $

21. Mannor of disappearance: Faded out.

22. Effect on clouds: Zone

23. Additional information concerning object: Reconnaissance of area where object might have fallen conducted by hellsopter. Result negative.

24. Weather conditions and light at time of sighting: Weather clear, quarter noon.

Name and address of observer: Capt Max W. BOLGAEM, CO Co B, 62nd Rn in Camp Road, Tucson.

Occupation and hobbies:

Army officer, horsemanship, shooting, other field sports.

Comments of Intorrogator relative to intblligence and character of observer (Chock neighbors, police dept., FBI records, employer, etc.):

Excellent observer with considerable experience in ground reconnaissance.

Did observer woar glassos, especially polariod glassos at time of sighting, or was object viewed through canopy, window, or other transparent material? Wore glasses, not polaroid.

Pages 344 of this report not applicable to this incident.

REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED

ON MAR 26 1979

BY DEP CDR USAINSCOM FOIC

AUTH Para 1-603 D0D5200

July 4 Restricted

George M. Sidney

Captain

Cases discussed

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 169 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.