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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 11

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 127 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's UFO file collects FBI and Air Force correspondence from about 1950 to 1953. It includes an Air Force OSI district summary of aerial phenomena in New Mexico from December 1948 to May 1950, which reports that green fireballs occurred near sensitive installations and remained unexplained. It also holds a 1950 sighting of an orange sphere by a New Haven chemical engineer, a report from jet pilots near Fairbanks, a Los Alamos reporting form, and 1953 memos on sighting tips that the FBI passed on without investigating.

  • p. 1 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 5 …Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena in the New Hexi Area, December 1948 - May 1950 ## DISTRIBUTION…
  • p. 70 Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 88 …to communicate with The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D…
  • p. 91 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 97 …After I had written to the Pentagon about my invention, a rejection arrived. From Salzburg I…
  • p. 102 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 111 …May 14, 1953 Director of Special Investigations Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon…
  • p. 116 …of it to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington 25, D…
  • p. 120 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 122 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 125 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…

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caviled the veterinarian would not com it himself but the veterinarian pointed out he had never seen an animal in the monkey family without hair nor had he ever seen a dead animal that did not turn pale at death. According to the veterinarian stated the animal's tail was missing and that when he had questioned nature about the missing tail he had seemed somewhat surprised and indicated it had possibly been cut off in the accident. stated there was blood around the mouth of the animal, which resembled human blood.

At the time he furnished the above information to the Atlanta Office of this Bureau, he stated neither he nor any member of the newspaper staff had been drinking but had witnessed the above. He stated he first thought he had tried to pull a publicity gag in this matter; however, it was opinion if this had been notive, would have timed his visit to the newspaper office better as the newspaper was unable to print anything on the story after midnight. Informed the Atlanta Office of this Bureau the newspaper would probably run a story concerning the information set forth above.

It is noted your office was telephonically contacted on the morning of July 9, 1953, by a Licison representative of this Bureau concerning the above matter. The above is furnished for your information and no investigation is being conducted in this matter by this Bureau.

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 127 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.