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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 smoke trail had discontinued but there was a tail that had the appearance of a ribb about 5 or 6 feet long. At times the tail lengthened to almost 20 feet. While hovering it had a burnt or dark brown appearance. The tail had an opalescent grayish appearance with a dark line running down through the center of it. The main object was still gray metallic in color. The object was hovering about 5 or 6 feet above the road in a completely stationary position. I went toward the object and the object started moving southward as I moved toward it. When I got to within 50 feet of it, the main object was about 4 to 6 feet from the chain link fence on the south side of the road. It moved straight up to about 12 feet then described a horizontal movement southward across the fence, then it again moved straight up to about sixty feet where it again moved south over a light pole and a willow tree. After it passed over the willow tree, it changed its direction to the southeast. At this time, He was unable to see the object at first and I returned to the gatehouse to make another report. continued his observation of the object and soon after I went into the gatehouse, Eightower sighted the object. The object was now ascending at an angle about 45 degrees in a southeast direction. As it moved away, it got larger in size and again assumed a pear or bladder shape. The object continued in this manner until it has passed over the ridge south of Solway road and disappeared. About five minutes later, Capt. Zarzecki drove up and as he came down the road I remark that I wished it would show up again so he could see it. We looked toward the ridge and saw it again. The object was moving from west to east about 8 or 9 feet above the field south of the fence. Its speed was about 15 to 20 miles per hour. I motioned for Capt. Zarzecki to hurry out of his car. He came over to where we were standing on the first island from the gatehouse. Capt. Zarzecki looked to where I pointed and saw the object immediately. At this time, the object was about 200 feet high and ascending at about 45 degrees in a southeast direction. We saw it for about 60 seconds before it disappeared at about 1,500 to 2,000 feet. It had a bladder or pear shape at this time. In about five more minutes, and I saw it again about 20 degrees above the center island house. It had pear shape again and appeared to be about the same size as a small pear. The object was moving west at about 20 miles per hour. It continued west about 50 feet above the road until we lost it in the glare of the sun. This was the last time it appeared. None of us noticed any odor at any time. When I first saw the object diving, its speed was very slow. It was much slower than a plane could dive. On the 45 degree downward slant, it slowed even more. When it moved across the road, the speed was about 15 miles per hour. During the upward slant, the speed was much faster than the downward slant and it must have been increasing in size because as it drew away, we could see it just as plainly and about the same size as when observed up close. The wind direction was north-northwest and 8 MPH, according to the Knoxville Weather Station. CERTIFIED TRUE COPY: By: /s/ Wm. B. Gray SAC, Knoxville (Page # 2 of Inclosure # 11)
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.