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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…
15 October 1950.	1520 hours. SUBJECT seen at Kerr Hollow Gate by Troopers Rymer and Zarzecki, Mr. Hightover, and Mr. Moneymaker.
15 October 1950.	1520 hours. Radar scopes at McGhee-Tyson Airport indicate unidentified targets.
16 October 1950.	1455 to 1530 hours. Objects seen by Troopers Isabell, Briggs and Clark.
16 October 1950.	1520 hours. Radar scopes at McGhee-Tyson Airport giving unintelligible readings.
16 October 1950.	1956 to 2004 hours. NEPA Guards, Brown, Herron, and Davis, report peculiar sounds.
20 October 1950.	1655 hours. Visual sighting by Larry P. Riordan, Security Chief, X-10 Plant.
23 October 1950.	1630 hours. Visual sighting made by Francis J. Miller (Geiger counters in the vicinity had unexplainable readings at about this time.)
24 October 1950.	1653 to 1900 hours. Visual sighting of a light by Major Ballweg, Mr. Prey, and the Radar Station.
25 November 1950.	1690 to 1920 hours. Several small, new vehicles were observed.
26 October 1950.	Robert W. Lassell and five others sighted object from the Knoxville Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee.
5 November 1950.	1155 to 1200 hours. Visual sighting by Don Patrick.
*25 May 1949.	In the vicinity of London, Tennessee, a flat, metallic object, accompanied by "a flapping noise", was seen by five people living in that area.

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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.