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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. 29 …1900 hours Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Anderson and Mrs. John A. White sighted three objects…
  • p. 48 …1900 hours Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Anderson and Mrs. John A. White sighted three objects…
  • p. 55 …The following is an article printed in the Clinton Courier-News, dated 26 October 1950: *Anderson…
  • p. 65 …the three flying objects sighted by the Andersons at approximately 1200 hours, 19 June 1949, and…

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Date	Time of Visual, Radar, or Audible Contact	Weather Balloons	Captive Blimp	Other
October
12	2325 - 2400	None	2320 - 2330
1700 feet	None
13	0000 - 0100
1500	0015 - 0030 (1 piball)
Heading - 90 degrees	None
15	1300 - 1400	Off Duty	Off Duty	Off Duty
1510 - 1520	Off Duty	Off Duty	Off Duty
16	1455 - 1530	None	None	None
1950 - 2004	1915 - 1930
1905 - 2030	1950 - 2010
(Two neutral balloons)	None
20	1510 - 1720	1645 - 1715 (Two neutral balloons)
1615 - 1630 (1 piball)	Wind W.
 4.7 mile
23	1630	None	None	1505 - (Thunderstorm rain)
1609 - (rain)
24	1823 - 1920	1815 - 1830 (1 piball)
	1855 - 1910
1935 - 1950	Off Duty
 Off Duty
25	0200 - 0300	Off Duty	Off Duty	Off Duty
26	0500	Off Duty	Off Duty	Off Duty
November
5	1155 - 1200	Off Duty	Off Duty	Off Duty

NOTE: During the above times and dates there was never any wind, either surface or aloft, which exceeded speed of thirty miles per hour.

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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.