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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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RECEIVED FROM C-2 TELEPHONE LASSON CHANNELS DATE 12/15/50 PARAPHRASE NOT REQUIRED FROM: COUSARAL FT RICHARDSON ALASKA FROM AROSI DTQ: 150345Z 15 DEC 50 Flae Air Cond reports military jet pilots vic. Fairbanks while over Weeks International Field at an altitude of 8000 feet observed a flash of light, yellow in color at an altitude between 25,000 and 30,000 feet. Horizontal distance to object was aprx 50 miles. Soon after flash a dark brown smoke appeared to rise or climb at an angle of 40 degrees. At the leading edge of the smoke at aprx 100 feet appeared an object either cigar shaped or a fuselage without wings travelling at terrific speed. Pilots started pursuit on heading of 210 degrees msg, indicating 380 at every steep climb. Pursuit continued until pilots reached village of clear and lost sight of object. Meantime object gained altitude and speed and disappeared because of distance of aprx 50 to 55,000 feet. Color of smoke brown, color of object dark and no reflection from sunlight. Pilots assured of shape because of perfect silhouette against the sun. One pilot had object in view aprx 4½ mins. First sighted at 1500262. Coordinates 64 dogs 13 mins North, 149 dogs 30 mins West. Info will be fvd when obtained. 162-73374 NOT DENIRED 17 DEC 21 1950 classification [cancelled] taken to 17 OCT 1978 effective on under the authority of 7 AR 20S+1 by JFIS CONS LTD (15 Dec 50) DRO: 150345Z rvk/7
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.