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.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
( SAUCER ) DENVER--A CONSTRUCTION WORKER AT LOG ALAMOS, N.M. HAS REPORTED THAT A STRANGE BLINKING OBJECT SOARED OVER A HIGHLY RESTRICTED AREA OF THE -IG ATOMIC ENERGY CENTER. LEE ROBINSON OF THE ARMEX CONSTRUCTION COMPANY SENT THE DENVER POST A COPY OF A MIMEOGRAPHED FORM WHICH HE USED TO REPORT THE OBJECT TO THE AEC. THE FORMS ARE PREPARED BY THE AEC FOR REPORTS OF UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS AT LOS ALAMOS. THE ORIGINAL THREE-PAGE REPORT, RODINSON SAID, HAS SUBMITTED TO THE ATOMIC ENERGY SECURITY SERVICE SEPT. 12., THE DAY RODINSON AND EIGHT OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE ARMEX COMPANY SAY THEY SAY THE OBJECT. ROBINSON SAID HE AND THE OTHERS WERE EATING LUNCH WHEN THE IDENTIFIED OBJECT PASSED OVER. HE SAID IT WAS NOT A BALLOON OR CONVENTIONAL TYPE OF AIRCRAFT. ROBINSON SAID THE OBJECT APPEARED TO BE AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 20,00 FEET. IT ALTERNATELY FLASHED BRIGHT AND BLACK AT INTERVALS OF TWO SECONDS, HE SAID, AND WAS VISIBLE FOR THREE MINUTES AND 40 SECONDS THE SPECIALLY MIMEOGRAPHED FORMS INDICATED THE ARC IS HIGHLY CONCERNED WITH UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECT OVER THE PROJECT. THE FORMS CONTAIN SPACES FOR INFORMANTS TO REPORT ON LUMINOSITY OF OBJECT, APPARENT MEANS OF SUPPORT AND PROPULSION AND "ODOR" OF THE OBJECT. 1077-E1003A.
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.