Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Anderson”4 pages
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CIC, FAO # 8, P. O. Box 379, Knoxville, Tennessee OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE: On 26 October 1950, at approximately 500 hours, Col. Edwin W. Thompson, 0-340795, Camp Stewart, Georgia, heard a noise which he described as "similar to Jet aircraft blast". This noise was intermittent and continued for several moment Col. Thompson was on the turnpike at Oak Ridge for a morning walk at the time, And he believed that this noise was being emitted from a factory in the near vicinity. Although he was aware of some of the facts concerning "Objects Sighted Over Oak Ridge" during the past two weeks, he still did not contribute this as pertinent. NOTES: Col. Thompson is unfamiliar with Oak Ridge, having arrived for the first time there on 25 October 1950. His description coincides with that of Major L. E. Bonniger who heard a similar noise on 17 October 1950, and also coincides with the description of the noise heard by Guards S. R. Brown, H. C. Harris, George R. Davis between the hours of 1950 and 2004 hours on 16 October 1950. On 23 October 1950, at 1630 hours, Mr. F. J. Miller at the I-10 plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, saw an object generally referred to as "the flying saucer". He stated that this object was at an altitude of approximately 1000 feet. The speed of the object was not determined. The following is an article printed in the Clinton Courier-News, dated 26 October 1950: *Anderson county finally got into the act. "After two years of reports from all over the nation concerning flying saucers, and after writers have made scads of money arguing the authenticity of flying discs back and forth and up and down, one of the "ships from Mars" has at last been reported as seen in Anderson county. "This saucer was seen about a week ago in the Oak Ridge area. Just what day no one knows - or will tell. However, the saucer was reported by Jay Moneymaker, an Oak Ridge worker who lives near Edgemoor Bridge, an Oak Ridge guard and another unidentified man. The three men saw it hovering, flying, crouching or something over the area at Oak Ridge, they said. "Moneymaker isn't talking, however. His family isn't talking. In fact the whole neighborhood is making like a bunch of professional clams. Other than to say he saw "something," he is saying nothing. His family also says he saw "something," but nothing more. The neighbors just say nothing. "This modesty of Moneymaker, his family and his neighbors is reportedly the result of a visit one night recently from several species of intelligence officers from heaven knows where. --- 3 oo Hq Third Army, Ft McPherson, Ga. 1 oo See, Div. ABC, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 1 oo OSL, Knoxville, Tenn. 1 cc FBI, Knoxville, 1 cc 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.