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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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19 October 1950
The "Contract Guards" who guard the building at the NEPA project were warned by the NEPA Security Section to report any peculiarity, regardless of how silly or fantastic it might seem. These guards were unaware of the previous events concerning objects seen over Oak Ridge, but some of the guards had reported peculiar sounds during the evening of 16 October 1950.
Independent reports from different guards were received by the Security Section, NEPA, Oak Ridge. These reports were submitted by Guards S. R. Brown; H. C. Herron; and George R. Davis. They all stated substantially the same and described bearing an intermittant noise resembling the blast of a Jet Fighter Aircraft. Each noise lasted for about three and one half $ \left( 3\frac{1}{2} \right) $ seconds and would recur frequently between 1956 hours and 2004 hours on 16 October 1950. Each noise would sound like a jet plane which had increased its thrust tremendously. The sounds seemed to leave the vicinity making an ascent almost vertical. None of the guards could see an object in the sky.
On 17 October 1950, Major L. E. Ronniger, Sr. Instructor, ORC Group, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, returned from Nashville, Tennessee, and visited an official of the Security Division, Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Major Ronniger was amused when informed of the fantastic sights that some of the persons at Oak Ridge had seen but then he recalled an incident which he thought was not connected to the "Objects Sighted over Oak Ridge." After having been away from Oak Ridge during Monday and Tuesday, the 16th and 17th of October 1950, and without knowledge of the occurrences which had taken place except for the item about which he was being told (which had to do with visual sightings of the object), Major Ronniger stated that he had heard a noise at about 1500 hours on 15 October 1950 which he described exactly as the guards who heard the noise on the night of 16 October 1950. Major Ronniger, accompanied by his daughter, attempted to locate a jet fighter in the sky but could see nothing whatever.
The Radar crew of Detachment # 2, 662nd AC and W Squadron, McGhee-Tyson Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee, did not get an image on their scope during either of these occurrences, according to Major R. C. Care.
NOTES: The above information was obtained on 17 October 1950 from Major L. E. Bonniger; Mr. George Rathman, Security Division, Atomic Energy Commission, and Mr. Gene Gaedjon, NEPA, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and John S. Davis, Atomic Energy Security Patrol/
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45-5830c-137 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.