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London, April 11 (IANS) Secret FBI files
that have been made public for the first time reveal that US police
and army officers saw a UFO explode over Utah state in 1949.
On April 4, 1949, FBI special agents sent a cable marked
'urgent' to the bureau director, Edgar Hoover.
The document spoke of how an armyman, a policeman and a highway
patrol, who were all miles apart, each saw a UFO, which they said
exploded over mountains near Logan, north of Salt
Lake City.
The memo is part of thousands of previously unreleased files
that the FBI has made public in a new online resource called 'The
Vault'. according to the Daily Mail.
The document said the three men each 'saw a silver coloured
object high up approaching the mountains at Sardine Canyon' that
suddenly exploded.
An earlier UFO sighting had been investigated in Logan in
September 1947.
Many witnesses told the FBI they saw 'flying discs' in formation
that were 'circling the city at a high rate of speed'.
A memo from a special agent in charge of the Washington field
office sent in 1950 says aliens landed at Roswell in New Mexico.
The aliens came in flying saucers, the memo said.
'They were described as being circular in shape with raised
centres, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied
by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall.'
The bodies were 'dressed in a metallic cloth of a very fine
texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout
suits used by speed flyers and test pilots'.
Roswell in New Mexico became famous after reports that a flying
saucer had crashed in the desert near a military base in July
1947.
The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and
autopsied by the US military, but American authorities allegedly
covered the incident up.
Another report said a flying disc 'hexagonal in shape' and
'suspended from a balloon by a cable' was seen in the area.