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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.

  • p. 80 …water droplets, and lightening, but he had never heard of the reflection of radar waves from…
  • p. 89 …During the above times and dates there was never any wind, either surface or aloft, which…
  • p. 105 …You would never know who they are. I believe this to be as dangerous as dope…
  • p. 156 …British Rocket society, but details on it never came out. Believed to be part of a…
  • p. 157 …now convinced there going to it." "I never saw anything so brilliant in my life," she…
  • p. 166 …like objects called "Gost - Rockets" were seen, never explained. 12. MISSIL - No direct news available, but…
  • p. 168 …The number of reports in the files has never been counted, but with 105 notebooks filed…
# RESIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL

16. Sound and odor:

17. Trail (color, length, width, persistonce, oto.)

Long yellow trail - similar to that left by falling star.

18. Luminosity (visible by reflection, incandescence, other - dogrose of brilliance);

Some brilliances average star.

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

20. Monouvers (turns, climbs, dives, etc. - skotch of flight path): Almost level flight, possible alight are.

21. Manner of disappearance: Faded out.

22. Effect on clouds:

23. Additional information concerning object: Observer did not see any falling stars during the period of observation.

24. Weather conditions and light at time of sighting: Clear - Large - Wood.

Name and address of observer: LA Florian L Takisovics

$ ^{D^{a}}$ Co - 66th Mod Tx An

24 Armored Division, Cp Hood, Texas

Occupation and hobbies: Officer.

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

Observer had difficulty explaining in detail what he saw.

Did observer wear glasses, especially polariod glasses at time of sighting, or was object viewed through canopy, window, or other transparent material? None.

Pages 3 & 4 of this form not applicable to this incident.

CONFIDENTIAL

Interviewed by

GEORGE M. SIDMAN

Captain, Inf

No 2d Arm Div

Guy Food, Texas

Cases discussed

About this file

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.