Documents / FOIA release
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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On 9 November 1950, Mr. J. Z. Holland, Chief of the Weather Section, Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, revealed information concerning the release of balloons the captive weather Blimp, and other weather data, during the periods of electronic, visual. and audible contacts with objects sighted over Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Attached hereto is a chart showing date, time of sightings over Oak Ridge, and the release of weather balloons, the Blimp, and weather data. Mr. Holland described the weather balloons as being 30 grams which rise at 600 feet per minute, and are released from the X-10 plant. The captive Blimp is stationary and is allowed to rise from a cable to an altitude of 1500 feet. The balloons are composed of "pigments of synthetic rubber" and vary in color, which colors are organic and, therefore, would not cause any reflection on radar equipment. Mr. Holland advised that radar readings may be received from echoes, off of moisture saturated clouds, certain types of thermos, some water droplets, and lightening, but he had never heard of the reflection of radar waves from radio active material although such reflection seems possible if enough radio active material was released to cause ionization of particles of air. However, no radio active material is known to have been released accidentally or intentionally during the month of October, which precludes the possibility that the radar sightings during October, of objects sighted over Oak Ridge, being of radio active matter. NOTES: During the next two weeks, the Weather Section at the Atomic Energy Commission will conduct research designed to ascertain whether or not the Knoxville Radar Station can receive radar interference and/or readings of the radioactive energy ejections at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. /s/ WILLIAM B. GRAY BAC KNOXVILLE
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.