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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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63 FEB. 27. Event. BRANTFORD, ONTARIO. 43 $ \frac{1}{8} $ . 604 . A very intense bright light, much brighter than an airplant, hovered in sky 20 minutes, gradually shrinking in size until disappearance.
64 FEB. 28 1953. Evening. BURLINGTON, IOWA. $ 4 0 \frac{1}{2} ^ {\circ}, 9 1 ^ {\circ} $ . A roddian tall of fire or light hovered over city 45 minutes. Observed by 20.
FEB. 28 1953. 8:25 P.M. SALEM, OREGON. 45 $ , 123 $ . A large white light, apparent size of a football, with a long tail, crossed sky, and exploded, shooting out several small balls of fire, which burned out in air. Local observers believed object was a fireball meteor.
1. QUALITY OF ACTIVITY PATTERN: The classifications listed below of the types of objects are very approximate and doubtful, due to short period of observation in most reports. A sphere may appear as a flat disc when seen at great distance: a disc may appear cigar-shaped if seen only edgewise, or vice-versa; A disc may resemble a sphere if seen 'fullface' and rotating, especially on a hazy day.
Other than something unknown and/or strangely maneuvering was seen the classifications are the best that can be made under these difficult conditions. Daytime objects are classified as well as possible by shapes and night object by color, since they are rarely seen well enough at night to describe shape. Each report is given a 15% basis in total of reports, as more exact basis is not too useful in the very approximate classifications.
SAUCERS SPHERICAL CIGAR-LIKE FALLING AIRPLANE BALLOONS? STAR?
22=33% 2=3% 3=41% 1=11% 10=15% 1=11%
(1,2,3,4,6,13,14,17,18 (39,48) (8,26,61) (42) (16,30,3133,34,3545,46,4750.) (#60)
20,21,22
24,29,36
40,44,49
51,53,57,59
NIGHT REPORTS
YELLOW TO RED BLUE GREEN NO COLOR GIVEN COLOR CHANGED METEOR
5=71% 2=3% 8=12% 5=71% 5=71%
(12,19,58,62) (11,37) (9,15,25,27,32,38,54,63) (26,28,41,43,56) (7,10,15,21,65)
2. ANOUNT OF ACTIVITY PATTERN: These classifications are also very approximate, but indicate some minor trends. From a general southern coverage of the south last month, activity now seems about equally hea from entire country, except continued weakness in NW. The Northeast is most notable in its increase from very slight activity to heaviest activity of all areas.
NORTHWEST3 reports(#11,50,65) SOUTHWEST10 reports(#4,6,14,20,25,27,30,31,40,44.) MIDWEST12 reports(#26,28,42,43,46,47,51,54,56,57,62,64.) NORTHEAST16 reports(#1,5,7,8,9,10,12,15,23,24,37,39,45,53,58,63.) SOUTHEAST12 reports(2,18,19,21,22,32,33,34,35,36,38,41 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.