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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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Number	Date	Time	Number of Observers	Reliability of Observers	General Area of Occurrence	Apparent Direction of Flight	Apparent Altitude	Course Horizontal to Vertical	Color	Train or Train	Duration of Observation	Sound	Shape	Apparent Size	Apparent Speed	Manner of Disappearance	Evaluation
80	1949/28 Jul	2045	65	Killeen Base, Texas	I to S	30° above horizon White w/bint of blue green	Yes	3-5 secs	None	Round w/tail	Size of evening star	Unable to estimate	Faded out	65
01	28 Jul	2259	65	Killeen, Texas	S to E	30° above horizon 2 predominately white. 1 had orange cleav to tail	Yes	41 at 2-3 secs w/2 at 10 - 12 secs	None	Round w/tail	Tennis ball Faded out	65
82	28 Jul	2261	65	Killeen, Texas	I to ET	30° above horizon Initial-11-blue turning white	None	15 - 20 secs	None	Round	3 times size evening star Faded out like light	65
83	30 Jul	2135	65	Camp Food, Texas	SD to ET	35° to horizon	Climbed in arc	Blue-white	Yes	2 - 2½ secs	None	Like rocket tail 2 - 2½ secs to cover arc of about 15°	Faded out	65
64	30 Jul	2204	65	Camp Food, Texas	SE to ST	App 30° above horizon	Straight flight los-altitude	Predominately white w/blue tint	Yes	2 - 3 secs	None	Round w/tail	Evening star or planet	Very fast	Grasually faded out	65

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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.