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Flying disc reports near Camp Hood, Texas — multiple sightings
~Aug 1949Camp Hood, Texas
⟳ Deeper read pending. This record is from the FBI 62-HQ-83894 flying-disc file, whose cursive, clippings and faint scans are under-read by automated OCR. It is flagged for a vision-transcription pass and likely undercounts what the source contains — see the documents collection note.
Analysis — our summary
The FBI San Antonio office reported receiving numerous reports of flying disks or 'unnatural phenomena' frequently observed around Camp Hood, Texas. The office noted these were primarily an Air Corps concern and described its practice of reviewing such reports and then destroying them unless FBI interest was identified.
As reported — verbatim from the document
“"a number of copies of reports being received in great numbers in this office concerning the so-called Flying disks or unnatural phenomena being frequently observed around Camp Hood, Texas"”
Analyst notes — caveats & confidence
This is a summary administrative memo, not an individual sighting report. No specific incident details (shape, color, speed) are given. Many underlying reports were destroyed per stated office practice. Low confidence due to lack of primary witness data.
Provenance
Source document65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_5.pdf
Document typecorrespondence collection
Reporting agencyFBI
Source pages209
Redaction markers in doc6
DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)
Held classified~77 years (≥, to this release)
Extraction confidence LowHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.