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UNITED STATES GOVERNMEN.T
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SUBJECT:
Director, FBI
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PROTECTION OF VITAL INSTALLATIOOS
(Bureau file 65- 48300)
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DATE : April 41 1949
AIR MAIL
SP-~CIAL DELIVERY
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22, 1949 which submitted information related by mil itary authorities concerning
unconventional aircraft.
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The Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G- 2, 4th Army, has advised
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eddish white in col or, followed by a fire trail, was observed southwest of
~~.~Cl~ill een Base, adjacent to Camp Hood, Texas.
The observation was made by 1st
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Lt. FREDERICK W. DAVIS, who was in charge of a platoon, Company C, 12th Armored
Sr
antry Battalion, which is assigned as a part of an alert force (called force
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Abel) from Camp Hood, whose function is to protect the installation at Killeen
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Lt. DAVIS advised that the object was at an altitude estima.~e~~~~
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6, 000 ft. , was traveling paral lel to the ground and passed directly over him at
~ffi~ a rapid rate of speed.
It was in view 10 to 15 seconds and suddenly disappeared
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No sound or odor was detected.
The
night v,as clear and visibility good.
The object passed almost directly over the
air strip at Killeen Base.
When Lt. DAVIS attempted to advise his headquarters by telephone
immediately after the sighting, he heard static or electrical interference on
the telephone line which he stated might be possible radio interference• .
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G- 2 has advised that other lights of unknoVJn origin were observed on
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W.arch 6, 7, 8 and 17, 1949, by military personnel of the alert force stationed
a.ppro:x:imately 1000 yards east of the fences ,·,hich surround Killeen Base.
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The object sighted on March 31, 1949 was reported as being of a
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Reference is made to San Antonio letter to the Bureau dated March
different nature from the lights seen earlier in the month.
It is noted that Mr . WALTEi)\."W
April 3, 1949, stated that 11flying dis
emanated from Russia.
ilTCHELL, on his
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4th Army, contacted
had any information that wruld substa
evening broadcast,
ry defd.nitely
,:i,ffice, inquiring as
or discredit the state-
Ckl April 4, 1949, G- 2,
to whether vre
ments made by WALTER WilJCHELL.
JEJ:ED
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