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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. 37 …These discs many times appear as inverted saucers, and if you will change your position slowly…
  • p. 53 …At the time of the observation there was adequate light and the object was plainly visible…
  • p. 60 …66 was wearing his glasses at the time and his vision, with glasses, is 20/20…
  • p. 157 …Bill Rust, city editor of the Monroe Evening, Times, was called to the post along with…
set II

UFO

Sec. 11.

190 Pages

Cases discussed

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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.