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.
“FBI file”18 pages
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Command, Stewart Air Field, Newburgh, New York). He called back and said their only instructions was to keep fighters on Alert Status. Told him we could have both off the ground in 4 (four) minutes. *Targets were appearing with come regularity and proceeding ## South. "They all traveled at a speed of between 100 and 125 miles per hour. Fading and reappearing at various intervals. All but one originated in the area. One did appear at 10 miles North of Clinton and faded right at the area line. Reappearance of this target or at least one on the same course 180 degrees was 8 (eight) miles inside area. This target faded after three sweeps (Revolutions of the indicator on the Radar Scope which makes four revolutions per minute). "The tracks varied at time from one applicable to very light A/C (aircraft) up to A/C of the C-47 variety (Meaning the reflected intensity of Radar waves made the target appear at first like a small aircraft and then like a large one). "We operated both on High and Low Beam and picked up the same tracks. "All traveled at the same approximate speed and general course. During the night this course spread from 170 degrees to 230 degrees (magnetic compass heading). "At 0210 E.6.T., called Captain Summers at Nobody; he called EALF, Captain Hutchinson, and received permission to release fighters to normal status." AGENTS NOTES: This document was signed by Captain William Akin, the Radar Controller on duty at the time of these occurrences. THIS IS A CERTIFIED TRUE EXTRACT COPY: BY: /a/ Wm B Gray SAC, Knoxville (Page #2 of Inclosure #1)
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.