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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 169 pages · text by GLM-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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# CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL

16. Sound and odor:

17. Trail (color, length, width, porsistonco, etc.) Plain like trail with rugged end.

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

As brilliant as a star of the first magnitude.

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

20. Manouvers (turns, climbs, dives, etc. - skotch of flight path): / 1, 3, 4 Horizontal flight with slight gain in altitude, / 2 Almost straight

21. manner of disappearance: Work out like a light.

22. Effect on clouds:

23. Additional information concerning object: Falling stars were observed in the course of the evening but objects reported on were almost moving.

24. Weather conditions and light at time of sighting: Clear, now almost full.

Hane and address of observer: La Edwin H. Pibyam

CO. "D" Co., 60th Ed Dr. Pa

Ed Amid Div., Cp Hood, Dana

Occupation and hobbies: Officer, US Army.

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

Did observer wear glasses, especially polaried glasses at time of sighting, or was object viewed through canopy, window, or other transparent material?

Pages 3 a 4 of this form not applicable to the Incident.

CONFIDENTIAL

CONFIDENTIAL

Interviewed by

George N. Sillars

Captain, Inf

3d Aird Div

Camp Wood, Texas

Cases discussed

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