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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 169 pages · text by GLM-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.

  • p. 9 Gray Good Dog AUTH Para 1-603 DOD5200 Eq. 24.4mA D17 BY DEP CDR USAINSCOM…
  • p. 61 …occurrences. CERTIFIED TRUE EXTRACT: /s/ Wm B. Gray SAC, Knoxville (Page 1 of Inclasure # 4) 65…
  • p. 62 …Force CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: /s/ Wm B. Gray SAC, Knoxville AEC, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 4/12…
  • p. 65 …TRUE EXTRACT COPY: By: /s/ Wm B. Gray SAC, Knoxville (Page # 1 of Inclosure # 9) 65…
  • p. 67 …Rydzowski ## Rydzowski:ks CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: By: /s/ Wm. B. Gray (Page # 2 of Inclosure # 10)
  • p. 69 …The main object was still gray metallic in color. The object was hovering about 5 or…
  • p. 73 …The tail of the object, which was light gray color, had a small black line running…
  • p. 74 …discussion of the incident Mr. Rathman, Mr. Gray, and the undersigned proceeded to Solway Gate, scene…
  • p. 77 …The object was light gray in color with a core that was a much darker gray…
  • p. 79 …be listed at the USAF Radar Site at the Knorville Airport. / / WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC, KNOXVILLE
  • p. 80 …readings of the radioactive energy ejections at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. /s/ WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC KNOXVILLE
  • p. 81 …sharply outlined edges - gray color, cool in contrast with warm, pinkish, gray of clouds - no spectral…
  • p. 83 …File CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: /s/ W B Gray SAC, Knoxville AEC, Oak Ridge, Tenn., 4-12…
  • p. 84 …p.h. West Wind. Temperature: Fifty-one (51) degrees." /ə/ WILLIAM B. GRAY(initialed) 8AC, Knoxville
  • p. 85 …also observed the object. 10/ Major, UBAF 67C CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: Illiam B. Gray Horville, Tenn.
  • p. 87 …screen at 7:20 the same evening. --- CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: / WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC, Knoxville, Tenn.
  • p. 88 …00 a.m. on the 25th. CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: /ə/ WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC, Knoxville, Tenn.
  • p. 90 …Sighted Over Oak Ridge, Tennessee," dated 21 October 1950, Enclosure h. / WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC, KNOXVILLE
  • p. 92 …BY: /a/ Wm B Gray SAC, Knoxville (Page #2 of Inclosure #1)

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# FIELD AREA OFFICE #8 P. O. Box 379 Knoxville, Tenn.

Incident Report

ABC PATROL

Incident report No. 142-50

Date: October 15, 1950

Time: 3:25 P.M.

Classification
Unidentified Flying Object	Trooper
E. D. Rymer	Location
Kerr Hollow
Person Involved
Trooper E. D. Rymer	Address	Badge No.
206	Company
"D" Troop
Person Involved
Capt. J. J. Zarzecki	Address	Badge No.	Company
66

John Moneymaker stopped at Kerr Hollow gate where I was on duty October 15, 1950, 3:20 P.M. He and I observed what appeared to be a skywriter in the air. He was one-quarter of the way through a letter "0". The object appeared to be 12,000 to 15,000 feet high and east by north of the gate, approximately one mile distance from the gate. At this time, the size appeared to be about the size of a four or five passenger plane. The object had a smoke trail the same cross-sectional size of its body and about one-quarter of a mile long. The smoke was grayish in color. The color of the body of the object was silver metallic. The object gave off no reflection. It was dull in appearance. When first observed, it was describing an arc toward the ground. When the object failed to complete the outside loop, I vent into the gate house to report its appearance. Up till this time I thought it to be a plane doing some skywriting. While I was making the phone call, watched the object continue downward to 1,500 feet. At that altitude, a second object was noticed alongside the smoke trail. The second object was the same size and shape and was about 50 feet behind the first object. The second object appeared to be attached to the first object's smoke trail with about an 80 degree forward thrust, yet the second object was moving in the same direction of the first object and not drawing away from the smoke trail of the first object the way it should have been doing according to its angle and direction. At this altitude, both objects changed from a bullet shape to a bladder shape. Also, at 1500 feet both objects began pulling out of the vertical dive. During the entire descent, both objects diminished in size. From 1,500 feet, the angle of descent was about 45 degrees. At about 500 feet, the second or trailing object disappeared. The object continued downward to a point north of the perimeter fence over the roadway about 60 yards from the gatehouse toward Solway bridge. This was where the object was when I came out of the gatehouse. At this time, the object had diminished to about 2x5 inches.

(Page #1 of Inclosure #11)

60-58300-139

Cases discussed

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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.