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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…
Some reports stemmed from pure imagination or hysteria, while others were deliberate hoaxes. Any other reports can be explained if all the surrounding facts are known.

Most all of the reports and descriptions of the flying saucers coincide so clearly with the findings herein, that there could be no doubt but that we have the correct solution.

The foregoing statement may not be coached in precise scientific terms, and may not be scientifically exact, however, we believe it is so worded that the average layman can understand it and that it is sufficiently correct to prove the proposition.

Personally, I do not believe that the so-called flying saucers or the solution thereof, are of any military value, unless the Government wished to retain this information for the psychological effect upon any potential enemy nation, such as Germany did in regard to their so-called secret weapons during the war.

Dan Nelson

Oklahoma City

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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.