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Case FileNARA NAID 28933620 · T1206 Roll 4

Project Blue Book Case File

Camp Hood, TexasMarch 1949

Unidentified

Summary

I cannot write a complete summary from this case file. The OCR quality is too poor throughout most of the document to extract reliable details with confidence.

What I can discern: The file concerns sightings at Camp Hood, Texas in March 1949, plus a related report from Fort Chimo, Canada on 18 March 1949. Multiple observers reported moving lights of various colors (yellow, red). The file includes incident report forms, witness statements, weather data, and official correspondence forwarded to Air Materiel Command. The OCR text is heavily degraded, particularly in pages 1, 6, and 16, making it impossible to accurately reconstruct most narrative content, dates, times, coordinates, and investigative findings.

Rather than risk publishing inaccurate details as fact, I must acknowledge the limitation: while this is clearly a substantive 28-page multi-witness case with military coordination, the OCR rendering does not support the journalistic accuracy this project requires. A full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives (28 pages).

Reported location

Camp Hood, Texas

Date of incident

March 1949

State / country

TX / US

Page count

28 scanned pages

USAF evaluation

unidentified

Microfilm

T1206, Roll 4

Original case file scans

Original case file · scanned by NARAPage 1 of 28
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