# April 27, 1949 — Camp Hood, TX — Close Encounters With Drones/Probes At Weapons Storage Site

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April 27, 1949 — Camp Hood, TX  
9:20 p.m. Two Army patrolmen southeast of Killeen Base, Texas, see a blinking violet light no more than 1.5 inches in diameter and only 10–12 feet from them, 6–7 feet above the ground. During the 60-second observation, the light passes through the branches of a tree. At 9:25 p.m., 2 miles away, four Army soldiers see a 4-inch light with a 2–4-inch metallic cone attached to the back. It silently approaches them in a level flight at 60–70 mph. It disappears to the southwest at a distance of 150 feet. At about 9:37 p.m., a 2-inch-wide purplish-white light appears 100 feet away to the northwest, flying in a zig-zag fashion in a level path 6–7 feet above the ground. When they attempt to approach it to investigate, it suddenly zooms away down the road at a high rate of speed before the light shuts off and the object disappears. A third light shows up at 9:39 p.m. in the west-southwest. [Eberhart]

Incident 18:

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Incident 19:

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Sources:  
Brad Sparks, Blue Books Unknowns Catalogue, Case 204-205, pp. 57–58;

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Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 10;

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Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed., p. 542;  
Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 4th Ed., p. 601;

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NICAP, “Close Encounters with Drones/Probes at Weapons Storage Site”;

> **[UFO Report](http://www.nicap.org/490427camphood_dir.htm)**

National Archives, “Camp Hood, Texas, April 1949 - Incident Number: 314”;

[https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28934366](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28934366)

Jazz Shaw, “From the Project Blue Book Archives: A Few Lesser-Known UFO Cases from Yesteryear,” The Debrief, March 7, 2023;

 ![04271949-CampHoodTX-TheDebriefSegment](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/uapdiscovery/original/2X/9/9966c986642002684901312f1f290a53d0ae9125.png)

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