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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. 9 Gray Good Dog AUTH Para 1-603 DOD5200 Eq. 24.4mA D17 BY DEP CDR USAINSCOM…
  • p. 61 …occurrences. CERTIFIED TRUE EXTRACT: /s/ Wm B. Gray SAC, Knoxville (Page 1 of Inclasure # 4) 65…
  • p. 62 …Force CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: /s/ Wm B. Gray SAC, Knoxville AEC, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 4/12…
  • p. 65 …TRUE EXTRACT COPY: By: /s/ Wm B. Gray SAC, Knoxville (Page # 1 of Inclosure # 9) 65…
  • p. 67 …Rydzowski ## Rydzowski:ks CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: By: /s/ Wm. B. Gray (Page # 2 of Inclosure # 10)
  • p. 69 …The main object was still gray metallic in color. The object was hovering about 5 or…
  • p. 73 …The tail of the object, which was light gray color, had a small black line running…
  • p. 74 …discussion of the incident Mr. Rathman, Mr. Gray, and the undersigned proceeded to Solway Gate, scene…
  • p. 77 …The object was light gray in color with a core that was a much darker gray…
  • p. 79 …be listed at the USAF Radar Site at the Knorville Airport. / / WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC, KNOXVILLE
  • p. 80 …readings of the radioactive energy ejections at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. /s/ WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC KNOXVILLE
  • p. 81 …sharply outlined edges - gray color, cool in contrast with warm, pinkish, gray of clouds - no spectral…
  • p. 83 …File CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: /s/ W B Gray SAC, Knoxville AEC, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 4-12…
  • p. 84 …p.h. West Wind. Temperature: Fifty-one (51) degrees." /ə/ WILLIAM B. GRAY(initialed) 8AC, Knoxville
  • p. 85 …also observed the object. 10/ Major, UBAF 67C CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: Illiam B. Gray Horville, Tenn.
  • p. 87 …screen at 7:20 the same evening. --- CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: / WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC, Knoxville, Tenn.
  • p. 88 …00 a.m. on the 25th. CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: /ə/ WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC, Knoxville, Tenn.
  • p. 90 …Sighted Over Oak Ridge, Tennessee," dated 21 October 1950, Enclosure h. / WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC, KNOXVILLE
  • p. 92 …BY: /a/ Wm B Gray SAC, Knoxville (Page #2 of Inclosure #1)
These shiny objects may have various form and there may be more than one, depending on the number of reflections. They may appear to be in the sky when the driver looks through the ventilation wing glass. Their position in the sky depends upon the angle at which the object is reflected in the ventilation wing and the position of the observer. They may have various forms but very frequently they are of a saucer shape or a flat shape when they appear to be in the sky.

The ventilation wing during day-light is not of course a perfect mirror, therefore, it appears to the driver or observer that he is actually looking through the glass into the sky. As he moves along, the bright objects appear to be traveling at a high rate of speed in comparison with the stationary objects on the ground, or the distant horizon, that he sees through the window, or in comparison with the fairly silhouetted objects on the landscape which at times are reflected in the window.

The flying saucer appears to be traveling in the same general direction as the automobile but sometimes a little to the right which makes it appear that it will eventually cross the drivers path. The apparent flight direction of the saucer is due to the angle of the ventilation wing glass in its relation to the direction in which the car is traveling. The number and position of the saucers reflected in the glass depend upon the number and contour of objects reflected therein by the sun. Bright objects on a car approaching from the rear may cast such reflections on your ventilation wing in the daytime.

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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.