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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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# KNOXVILLE DETACHMENT 8th DISTRICT OSI (IG) PO BOX 401 Knoxville, Tennessee 16 October 1950 SUBJECT: Visual Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects over Oak Ridge, Tennessee : District Commander 8th District OSI (IG) Marwell AFB, Ala. 1. At 0830 16 October 1950, Mr. George Rathman, Security Division, Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, notified the undersigned that visual sightings of an unidentified flying object had been made by several persons at Oak Ridge. Accompanied by W. B. Gray, SAC Knoxville CIC, the undersigned proceeded to Oak Ridge. 2. At the AEC Security Division, Oak Ridge AEC Security Patrol was interviewed by Mr. Rathman, Mr. Gray and the undersigned. In substance related the following: At about 1525 EST, 15 October 1950 was on duty at the Solway entrance to the Oak Ridge controlled area. He was conversing outside the guard house with the attendant at the University of Tennessee Research Farm Program, Oak Ridge. happened to glance in the sky and called attention to an object in the sky. The men observed that the object was starting to describe an arc in the sky. They estimated the object to be about twelve to fifteen thousand feet altitude. At this altitude the object resembled a sky-writing plane because smoke appeared to be trailing from the object. After the object described about a quarter of an arc it began to make a controlled descent at a speed estimated at about 100 miles per hour. Then noticed that the object had no wings and that it appeared to be bullet shaped. By this time the men could observe that what appeared to be smoke coming from the object was an attached tail. At this time went in the guard house and called the Captain of the Guard to report a falling object. Continue to observe the object. When came out of the guard house the object had descended to a height of about six (6) feet and was about seventy (70) yards from the two (2) men. By this time the object had assumed the shape of a two (2) by five (5) inch grayish colored card and attached to the object was a ribbon like tail about twenty (20) feet long and an inch wide. The object had no thickness. The tail of the object, which was light gray color, had a small black line running down through its center. The tail appeared to be waving or rippling and the latter fifteen (15) feet of the tail gave off a pulsating glow intermittently in different section of the fifteen (15) feet. The latter fifteen (15) feet of the tail appeared to be somewhat transparent.
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.