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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.

  • p. 4 …Department of the Army, Headquarters, U.S. Army Intelligenes and Security Command Ft. George G. Meade…
  • p. 39 …Department of the Air Force, Headquarters, Air Force Office of Special Investigations advised that the attached…
  • p. 50 …Trooper Rymer was interrupted twice during which times he called his headquarters in an attempt to…
  • p. 51 …Ground 3 cc Headquarters, Third Army 1 cc OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 cc FBI, Knoxville, Tennessee…
  • p. 57 …He knew of no practice mission by higher headquarters but said he would call EALF (Eastern…
  • p. 62 …This information was phoned in to Headquarters immediately by the undersigned. About fifteen minutes after the…
  • p. 71 …This letter is to confirm spot report given your headquarters on 13 October 1950. Beginning at…
  • p. 91 …The following pages were referred to the Department of the Air Force, Headquarters Air Force Office…
  • p. 111 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania September 2, 1965 --which had headquarters at Washington, D. C…

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# CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE TO INVESTIGATION

UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS

Incident No.

2. Date of Observation 20 Aug 49 Date of Interview 22 Aug 49

2. Exact time of observation (local) 9240

3. Place of Observations: CP Greenville Mountain = 913.3 = 896.6 (Map Coordinates)

4. Position of observer (air, car, bldg, location of - give details): Standing

5. What attracted attention to object: Moving light coming toward observer

6. Number of objects and sketch of formation or grouping:

7. Apparent size (compare to known object, i.e., sun, moon, thumb or fist at arms length):

Much larger then evening star

8. Color of object:

Light red, dimming to light yellow

9. Shape (give graphic description - compare with known object); Found with jaguar trail

10. Altitude (Angle of elevation above horizon - 0 dogroos at horizon, 90 dogroos overhead):

Possible 6000 ft or greater

11. Direction from observer (Angle clockwise from North); Sun North (off the west end of Oump Head)

12. Distance from observer (Distance to town, bldg, etc., over which object appeared to be):

13. Direction of flight of object (s):

North to South REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED ON MAR 20 1979 BY DEP CDR USAINSCON FOLO

14. Time of sight: 2 or 3 seconds

25. Speed (time to cover given angular distance): Incl same as above

FBI - SAN ANTONIO AUG16...

CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL ENCLOSURE 65-56

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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.