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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.

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RECORDED : 99

INDEXED - 99 Date: May 14, 1953

Director of Special Investigations

Inspector General

Department of the Air Force

The Pentagon

Washington 25, D. C.

CONFIDENTIAL

declassified

2010

April 27

From: John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation

Subject: LYING SAUCERS

There is attached for your information and assistance in this matter a copy of a self-explanatory letter dated May 9, 1953, received by this Bureau from Mrs. Watertown, Massachusetts. Mrs. letter has been acknowledged by this Bureau and she has been informed that a copy of her letter has been referred to the Department of the Air Force for appropriate attention.

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cc-1-Boston (Under Separate Cover)

(Attachment) (FOR INFO)

NOTE: human files are negative re. rs.

Cases discussed

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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.