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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. 40 …LA PAZ advanced the theory to RYAN that the objects were controlled missiles traveling around the…
  • p. 71 …planes from the nearby Oliver Springs Airport, etc. were ruled out. One explanation advanced that it…
  • p. 74 …advanced on the object to within fifty (50) feet but it did not appear to get…

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below the ridge of the mountain. (Note: stated that for the object to be as large as he described and to be six (6) miles distant its size would be comparable to a three (3) story building a half a block long).

5. Information on Subject -

Information on Subject

6. Weather and wind conditions - according to the Weather Bureau at Oak Ridge, the temperature was 51 degrees and there was a mine (9) to twelve (12) mile an hour West wind. Visibility was unlimited.

7. Unknown

8. Physical Evidence - None

9. Interception or identification action taken - None

/8/ WILLIAM M. PRICE

8/A 081

Detachment Commander

Cases discussed

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