Documents / FOIA release
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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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 4/28/53 SAC, SAN JUAN (65-330) UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT OBSERVED 11:30 AM, APRIL 8, 1953, FORT BUCHANAN, PUERTO RICO: MISCELLANEOUS Flying Aeroplane On 4/27/53 a report was received from Major Wing Intelligence Officer, Ramey Air Force Base, Puerto Rico. The substance of this report is as follows: Five persons observed an unidentified flying object at 11:30 AM on 4/8/53 at Fort Luchanan, Puerto Rico. Statements were taken from all of the witnesses, among whom were three Captains and a Sergeant of the U.S. Army, as well as a civilian. They described the object as a bright star or a bright ball of fire at a great height, and it was moving rapidly at the time it was observed. All of the witnesses observed one RB 36 aircraft which had been flying in the area at the time of the sighting of this unidentified object. The Wing Intelligence Officer reported that there were two RB 36 aircraft in the area at this time. These aircraft were reported to be flying at 12,000 and 21,000 feet respectively. None of the persons from whom statements were taken were able to accurately describe the object, other than by the statements set forth above. This matter is being reported to the Bureau for information purposes. CLOSED. FDO'B:LD 53 MAY 11 1953
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.