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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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GUIDE TO INVESTIGATION
CONFIDENTIAL OBJECTS
Incident No.___
1. Date of Observation 10 Aug 42 Date of Interview 11 Aug 49
2. Exact time of observation (local) (1-2100)-(12-2120)-(13-2215)-(16-225
3. Place of Observation: Greenville Mo. = 913.3-658.6 (Map Coordinates)
4. Position of observer. (air, car, bldg, location of - give details): Standing at field force observation post.
5. What attracted attention to objects: Moving light in a clear city.
6. Number of objects and sketch of formation or grouping: One at each time indicated in / 2.
7. Apparent size (compare to known object, i.e., sun, moon, thumb or fist at arm length):
Large star.
8. Color of object: Predominately white followed by orange trail.
9. Shape (give graphic description - compare with known object); Generally round with trail.
10. Altitude (Angle of elevation above horizon - 0 degrees at horizon, 90 degrees overhoad): $ 4 0^{\circ} \sim 7 0^{\circ} $
11. Direction from observer (Angle clockwise from North): ( $ \left( {f}_{2}-{f}_{1},{x}_{2}-{x}_{1}\right) $ $ \left( {f}_{2}-{f}_{1},{y}_{2}-{y}_{1}\right) $ $ \left( {f}_{2}-{f}_{1},{z}_{2}-{z}_{1}\right) $ $ \left( {f}_{2}-{f}_{1},{930}^{ \circ }\right) $ $ \left( {f}_{2}-{f}_{1},-95^{ \circ }\right) $
12. Distance from observer (Distance to town, bldg, etc. which object appeared to be):
Great distance - unstimable.
13. Direction of flight of object (a):
/ 1,3,4 Almost horizontal with slight increase in altitude, / 2 -
- Ascended almost vertical.
15. Speed (time to cover given angular distance):
real speed - unestimable.
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CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
FBI - SAN ANTONIO
AUG 1 6 1949
ENCLOSURE
65-58300 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.