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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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The following accounts of activity at the Radar Operations Section, of Detachment # 2, 662nd AC & W Squadron, McGhee-Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee, is extracted from their official report dated 13 October 1950. Other pertinent information was submitted in a previous Summary of Information, Subject: Objects Sighted Over Oak Ridge, Tennessee, dated 13 October 1950. "The first target, H-47 at 2325 E.8.T., 12 October 1950, appeared as per diagram (Inclosure #2). Then in rapid succession, we had H-48, H-49, and H-51 appear. "Called AEC; they had no report of an Aircraft at this time --2325. "Called Atlanta; they had no flight plans on anything coming from the North. "Arrow (Fighter Aircraft) airborne at 2339 E.S.T. and vectored on 290 degrees, Angels (altitude) 2500. There were three perfect intercepts on the scope on H-48, but no joy (Fighter aircraft made no contact). Height Finder gave approximate angels of target at 3000. These angels varied from 1500 to 5000 feet on various targets throughout the evening. One intercept of H-48 was 14 miles at 270 degrees and from a stern approach; no joy. "Pulled fighter off this target and sent him back into area at angels 5000. He made complete sweep of area and saw nothing. "Notified Radar Maintenance, who checked the operation of the Radar and switched channels. "By this time all targets had faded and area was clear. We steered Arrow back to base and he pancaked (landed) at 0014, E.S.T., 13 October 1950. "Very shortly after pancake, various targets again appeared through the area. They gave good paints (images) on the Radar Scope) but faded completely at times and then would reappear. "AEC still had no report for us, but had alerted all guards and were beginning to get searchlights out in case they were needed. We did not report these additional plots to Nobody (Call sign for Air Defense Command Control Center, Selfridge Field, Ala.) until 0100. Called Captain Summers at this time and explained that the same Rat Race (activity on the radar scope) had started again. He knew of no practice mission by higher headquarters but said he would call EALF (Eastern Air Defense
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.