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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.
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FAO 48, P. O. Box 379, Knoxville, Tennessee - OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE (Refer: Summaries of Information, Subject; as above, dated 13 and 17 October 1950) Attached to this Summary is eleven (11) inclosures which tend to clarify information contained in the former two (2) Summaries of Information on SUBJECT. These inclosures are composed of witness statements; background information concerning previous sightings of peculiar objects over Oak Ridge; and radar reports. The most reliable sources available were utilized in the compilation of this report The employment records and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports concerning the witnesses were inspected to ascertain their reliability, integrity, and loyalty to the United States Government. The opinions of the officials of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge; Security Branch, MEPA Division, Oak Ridge; AEC Security Patrol, Oak Ridge; FRI, Knoxville; Air Force Radar and Fighter Squadrons, Knoxville; and the OSI, Knoxville Tennessee, fail to evolve an adequate explanation for SUBJECT, however the possibilities of practical jokers, mass hysteria, ballons of any description, flights of birds (with or without cobwebs or other objects attached), falling leaves, insects, peculiar weather conditions, reflections, flying kites, objects thrown from the ground, windblown objects, insanity, and many other natural happenings have been rejected because of the simultaneous witnessing of the objects with the reported radar sightings; because of the reliability of the witnesses; because of the detailed, similar description of the objects seen by different persons; and because of impossibility. The trend of opinions seem to follow three patterns of thought. The first is that the objects are a physical phenomenon which have a scientific explanation; the second is that the objects are experimental objects (from an undetermin source) guided by electronics; and the third is similar to the second except that an intended demoralization or harassment is involved. The fantastic is generally rejected. These objects have apparently followed only two patterns. The first is that they were sighted at the same hour on two consecutive days and the second is that the time of flight is either to or from the Northeast and Southwest, which directions parallel the terrain ridges in this locality. Attention is invited to the 1947 photograph of a flying object (inclosur 48). Atomic Energy Commission officials advise that the Air Force Laboratory at Wright Field, Ohio, indicate that the object is a water sport on the photograph. Because this object does not resemble other water spots of the photograph, and because the object in the second photograph is following the dim trail left by the first object, some officials at Atomic Energy Commission question the veracity of 3 oo Commanding General, Third Army 1 oo Major Martin, G-2 Section, Third Army 1 oo Div. AEC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1 oo FBI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 oo OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee 1 oo File
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.