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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. 13 …The Watch Committee was told that the Air Defense Command has not completed its investigation of…
  • p. 39 …Department of the Air Force, Headquarters, Air Force Office of Special Investigations advised that the attached…
  • p. 40 …On 2/6/49 PAUL RYAN, Office of Special Investigations, Roswell, New Mexico, advise the resident…
  • p. 41 …Paul Ryan, Office of Special Investigation, Roswell, New Mexico, that two men whom he interviewed at…
  • p. 91 …to the Department of the Air Force, Headquarters Air Force Office of Special Investments $ \mathrm{H…
  • p. 114 …86 162 - 1987 Date September 27,1961 Office of Special Investigations Air Force Attention: Chief, Counterintelligence…
  • p. 117 …Office of Special Investigations Air Force Attention Chief, Counterintelligence Division From: John Edgar Hgover, Director Subject…
  • p. 118 Office of Special Investigations Air Force ## NOTE CONTINUED: letter to the Bureau attesting to the anticommunist…
  • p. 136 …March 20, 1954 ## Tot Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force…
conditions, and that the objects might be either vertical or horizontal. The subject related that any change in speed of the car resulted in a change in speed of the object, and that changes of direction resulted in a change in the angle of travel of the object.

NELSON stated he has not talked to any persons that had actually seen flying saucers or discs but he believed that these reflections plus the excitement and hysteria caused by other reports has been the basis for most flying saucer reports. Subject also stated that this same theory could be true in relation to flying saucers seen from aircraft.

Attached hereto is a detailed statement by NELSON covering his findings and explaining his solution to the so-called Flying Saucer Kystery.

Taiman D. Simon

KALMAN D. SIMON

C.I., U.S. Army

Cases discussed

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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.