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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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16 October 1950-1455 to 1530 hours. Objects seen by troopers Isabell, Briggs and Clark. (Inclosures #5 and #6)

16 October 1950-1520 hours. Radar scopes at McGhee-Tyson Airport giving unintelligible readings. (Inclosure # 4)

16 October 1950 - 1956 to 2004 hours. NEPA Guards, Brown, Herron, and Davis Roy peculiar sounds. (Inclosure # 7)

CORRECTION on second page of the S/I, Subject as above, dated 13 October 1950, replace the word Oliver Springs for "Sulphur Springs".

Attached to the original only are two Knoxville OSI reports concerning SUBJECT.

SOURCE: Major R. C. Care, Capt. W. Akin, Lt. Clavenger, (Knoxville Radar Site); Lt. Wolf (Pilot of fighter aircraft); Eastern Air Defense Command Representative Special Agent OSI; Officials of Security Division, Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Atomic Energy Commission Security Patrol; Security Trooper Rymer, Zarzecki, Briggs, Clark, and Isabell; John Moneymaker; E. W. Hightover; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Officials of Security Branch, MEPA, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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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.