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.
“Office of Special Investigations”9 pages
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma July 10, 1950 MEMO FOR THE SAC: RE: St. Okla. City, Okla. Unknown object found in backyard. At 6:30 A. V. this date, Mr. telephonically contacted this office, and advised that he had found a strange object in his back yard. Mr. described the object as a metallic corrugated ball, slightly larger than a baseball, with a wire attached to it. The writer asked Mr. what he thought the object was, and he replied, "not being a geologist he could not say". Mr. was asked if he thought the object was a bomb, and he replied that he did not know, but it hadn't blown up yet. The writer referred Mr. to the Oklahoma City Police Department. Mr. volunteered that he had been drinking, but that he was not drunk. It was apparent from Mr. incoherent speech and thickness of tongue, he was under the influence of liquor. Mr. called again at 7:00 A.M. and he was again told to call the Oklahoma City Police Department. At 7:30 A.M. the complainant called the office, and advised that he had called the police department, and that they tried to make a damned fool out of him and he didn't like it a bit. Mr. was very arrogant and demanding during this conversation. He wanted the FBI to do something. The writer was courteous to Mr. and informed him that his call would be made a matter of record and in the event the matter was within the investigative jurisdiction of this office, he would be contacted. Clerk. 62. 42605.1 ENCLOSURE
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.