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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.
“Knoxville”9 pages
- p. 17 …at Greenville, South Carolina, had arrived in Knoxville and contacted him with regard to making an…
- p. 18 A short time after receiving the above information, Special Agent OID, 3rd Army, stationed at Knoxville…
- p. 20 …stated that he had noticed two small aircraft headed in the general direction of the Knoxville…
- p. 22 …It was reported that Naval Reserve radar equipment at Knoxville, Tennessee, did not detect an object…
- p. 25 …NAVAL RESERVE RADAR EQUIPMENT AT KNOXVILLE DID NOT DETECT OBJECT ON ANY OCCASION, BUT TECHNICIANS STATE…
- p. 26 …reflecting a call from SAC Robey, of Knoxville, in the above-entitled matter.
On the morning…
- p. 27 …today, SAC Robey of Knoxville advised that owner and operator of Knoxville, had called the Knoxville…
- p. 31 …There is a radar station near Knoxville which has been in operation about 3 weeks. This…
- p. 33 …CIA Radar Technician reportedly arrives Knoxville today to check radar set and operation.
3. Arrangement reportedly…
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