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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. 50 …When this object was over the hill it was still visible as the same sized object…
  • p. 59 …altitude and speed and went over a hill about one mile distance. When Rymer was within…
  • p. 64 …distance appeared to be approximately over the hills in the background. NOTE: Only one set of…
  • p. 74 …The immediate area around the gate is fairly level with wooded hills and ridges rising around…
  • p. 86 …observe anything towards the southwest because of hills and other obliterating features of the terrain. He…
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 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.