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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.

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  • p. 89 …During the above times and dates there was never any wind, either surface or aloft, which…
  • p. 105 …You would never know who they are. I believe this to be as dangerous as dope…
  • p. 156 …British Rocket society, but details on it never came out. Believed to be part of a…
  • p. 157 …now convinced there going to it." "I never saw anything so brilliant in my life," she…
  • p. 166 …like objects called "Gost - Rockets" were seen, never explained. 12. MISSIL - No direct news available, but…
  • p. 168 …The number of reports in the files has never been counted, but with 105 notebooks filed…
# RESTRICTED GUIDE TO INVESTIGATION UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS

1. Date of Observation 29 July Date of Interview 29 July

2. Exact time of observation (local) Approximately 2043

3. Place of Observation: Just outside Food Village on highway 190 (Map Coordinates)

4. Position of observer (air, car, bldg, location of - give details): Driving part on highway 190.

5. What attracted attention to object: Visual light.

6. Number of objects and sketch of formation or grouping:

7. Apparent size (compare to known object, i.e., sun, moon, thumb or fist at arms length):

About the size of evening star.

8. Color of object: Prodromately white, tint of blue green.

9. Shape (give graphic description - compare with known object); Bound with tail.

- 10. Altitude (Angle of elevation above horizon - 0 degrees at horizon, 90 degrees overhoad): $ 9 0^{\circ} $

11. Direction from observer (Angle clockwise from North): $ 2 9 0^{\circ} $ North West.

12. Distance from observer (Distance to town, bldg, ote., over which object appeared to be):

Approximately 2 miles.

13. Direction of flight of object (a):

North to South.

15. Speed (time to cover given angular distance): Unstimable.

COI Resoluted AL

CONFIDENTIAL

65-58300-72

ENCLOSURE

Cases discussed

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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.