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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 169 pages · text by 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.

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  • p. 156 …British Rocket society, but details on it never came out. Believed to be part of a…
  • p. 157 …now convinced there going to it." "I never saw anything so brilliant in my life," she…
  • p. 166 …like objects called "Gost - Rockets" were seen, never explained. 12. MISSIL - No direct news available, but…
  • p. 168 …The number of reports in the files has never been counted, but with 105 notebooks filed…
UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS

## CONFIDENTIAL Incident No.

1. Date of Observation 29 July Date of Interview 29 July

2. Exact time of observation (local) 2259

3. Place of Observation: (Map Coordinates) 912.5 - 862.1

4. Position of observer (air, car, bldg, location of - give details): Driving west on highway 190.

5. What attracted attention to object:

5. What attracted attention to object:

Looking at the sky when an object that appeared blue, turned white and started to move.

6. Number of objects and sketch of formation or grouping:

7. Apparent size (compare to known object, i.e., sun, moon, thumb or fist at arms length):

2 times Evening star.

8. Color of object: Initially blue turning white.

9. Shape (give graphic description - compare with known object); Sound (Le Tail).

10. Altitude (Angle of elevation above horizon - 0 degrees at horizon, 90 degrees overhood):

11. Direction from observer (Angle clockwise from North): Due North.

12. Distance from observer (Distance to torn, bldg, etc., over which object appeared to be): 3 or 4 miles.

13. Direction of flight of object (a) North to North East.

14. Timo of sight: 15 to 20 seconds, stationary 5 to 10 seconds.

time in flight 5 to 10 seconds.

15. Speed (timo to cover given angular distance):

5 to 10 seconds.

CONFIDENTIAL

Restricted RIAL 165-5836

Cases discussed

About this file

FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 169 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.