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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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stated that as far as he knows his eye-sight is good and that he only had to use glasses for reading purposes. He had his eyes tested about 4 years ago by , at which time the reading glasses were prescribed. He also had taken a pre-drivers license eye test about 3 weeks ago at the Maxon First Aid Station. stated that the only other person to whom he mentioned seeing the object was a guard stationed at Gate Two to the K-29 Plant. ## Note: The Maxon Guard was later identified as being Jack Laxton, who was interviewed at approximately 11:15 p.m. Laxton stated that a man was driving through the portal shortly after 3:00 p.m. and stopped to chat with him for about 5 minutes. The man stated that he had a headache and that he had been observing an object in the sky which was called to his attention by a guard at the Kerr Hollow entrance. According to Laxton, the man further related that the object was so high he didn't know what it was, but it looked more or less like a toy ballon. Laxton stated that he was not excited by this report; however he did mention something about flying objects to a fellow guard about two hours later when they observed aircraft which they believed were P-38's flying over the plant areas. Note: Other individuals who had observed the object were identified as AEC Patrolman Edward Dean Rymer and bl ## A. L. Rydzowski ## Rydzowski:ks CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: By: /s/ Wm. B. Gray (Page # 2 of Inclosure # 10)
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.