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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 16

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 169 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 104 …Press; The Flying Saucers Are Real by Donald Keyhoe; and Methods of the Magl, another publication…
  • p. 161 …It contains the history of the major saucer reports from 1947 to 1950, how Donald Keyhoe…
  • p. 165 …the book, "FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL" by Donald Keyhoe. It was the first serious study of…
  • p. 167 …of these signals is not clear, although Donald Keyhoes now book states they may be warning…
  • p. 169 …The sole exception appears to be the June - July 1947 reports, but Donald Keyhoe stated in…
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UFO

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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.