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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.

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  • p. 33 …Arrangement reportedly made by FBI with Naval and Marine Reserve Unit Knoxville to set up radar…
  • p. 34 Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR, FBI : GUY HOTTEL, SAC, WASHINGTON SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS INFORMATION CONCERNING…
  • p. 53 …October 2, 1949 DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, Pittsburgh SUBJECT Informant OFLYING DISCS, MISCELLANEOUS On September 26, 1949…
  • p. 55 …and no record of it kept in FBI files. If is it true that the Soviet…
  • p. 57 DIRECTOR, FBI SAC, INDIANAPOLIS SUBJECT: OFLYING SAUCERS SECURITY MATTER - X of OSI, Benjamin Harrison Air Base…
  • p. 60 …event there appears to be nothing of FBI interest therein. It is pointed out that the…
  • p. 65 (1) Office Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Director, FBI DATE: July 26, 1949 SAC, San Antonio SUBJECT…

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