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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	Rollability of Observers	General Area of Occurrence	Apparent Direction of Flight	Apparent Altitude	Course Horizontal to Vertical	Color	Gilvery	Train or Trail	Duration of Observation	Sound	Shape	Apparent Size	Apparent Speed	Lunar or Disappearance	Evaluation
60	1949/01/19	App 1480	1	65	Tucson, Arizona	ST to NE Silvery	None	6-10 secs	None	Round & Flat	25' in diameter	750-1000 mph	Faded from view	65
69	12 July	2115 2130	1	65	Alamocordo, New Mexico 50 or 40 above horizon White with greenish tinge	None	4 mins	None	2 Fuzzy stars	1/2 diameter of full moon Vanished	65
70	15 March 1700	Art 1700	1	65	Tucson, Arizona	E to W	5000	Horizontal	Black	None	P-10 secs	None	Round solid Flat	3 - 4' in diameter	700-1000 IFE	Behind aircraft horizon	65
71	2 June	0040	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	D to H	7000' - 12,000'	Descending	Green	Yes	1 sec	None	Call of light 65
72	11 Jun	2057	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	ST to NE	250 above horizon Green then red at end of flight	Yes	4 - 5 secs	None Size of star 65
75	20 Jun	2010	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	E to B Green burned orange before vanishing	None	3 secs	None	Round Latinquished	65
74	20 Jun	2010	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	E to E	Directly overhead Blue green	None	1-1/2 secs	None Vanished as the entering d.	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.