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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. 29 …1900 hours Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Anderson and Mrs. John A. White sighted three objects…
  • p. 48 …1900 hours Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Anderson and Mrs. John A. White sighted three objects…
  • p. 55 …The following is an article printed in the Clinton Courier-News, dated 26 October 1950: *Anderson…
  • p. 65 …the three flying objects sighted by the Andersons at approximately 1200 hours, 19 June 1949, and…

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Director, FBI

PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLATIONS 65-58300-56 Reurlet 2-10-49.

A review of your referenced letter reflects that Dr. Lincoln La Paz, Meteorologist, indicated to Mr. Paul Ryan, Office of Special Investigation, Roswell, New Mexico, that two men whom he interviewed at Kenna, New Mexico apparently had some knowledge that the "unidentified aerial phenomena" was not a meteorite.

It is believed desirable that you endeavor to ascertain the identity of these two individuals at Kenna, New Mexico and to interview them for any information which they may be able to furnish relative to this matter.

G. I. R.

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

MAILED 15

FEB 24 1949 P.M.

MEDICAL BROKER OF INVESTIGATION

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Cases discussed

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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.