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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 08

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 66 pages · text by OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file release gathers memos, teletypes and letters from 1949 and 1950 on flying saucer reports. Most of it covers a March 1950 claim by a Knoxville radio technician that his surplus APN-7 radar detected an object over Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Navy radar never confirmed the object, and Air Force examiners judged his equipment unreliable. Other items include a cardboard saucer hoax near Elmira, New York, a pilot's 1949 formation sighting in Oregon and a Denver claim of a crashed disc.

  • p. 15 …It was accordingly reported that a CIA technician would come to Cal Ridge. Also, immediately following…
  • p. 25 …AEC TOOK STEPS TO HAVE RADAR TECHNICIAN SENT FROM WASH., BELIEVED FROM CIA, BUT NOT YET…
  • p. 26 …continuing their interest in the matter; and that the CIA technician from Washington had not arrived.
  • p. 27 …Army CIC has now informed that CIA is going to send a technician down from Washington…
  • p. 33 …not established but report as "terrific". 2. CIA Radar Technician reportedly arrives Knoxville today to check…

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