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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 Trail	Duration of Observation	Sound	Shape	Apparent Size	Apparent Speed	Runner of Disappearance	Evaluation
52	1049/6 May	2040 2130	1	65	Camp Hood, Texas	W and N	App 1200' dropping to 640' Alternating pinkish to green	None	50 mts	None	Round	¼ dollar diminishing to short quarter size	Very slow	Faded from sight	65
63	6 May	0105	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	N to S	50 above horizon	Has going down at an angle of 30 - 35°	Green Fraction of a sec	None	Round	App 1/8 size of full moon	Very high rate of speed	Disappeared west of Jemez Hills.	65
64	7 May	2025 2105	4	65	Camp Hood, Texas	SE	1300' Green-white	None	40 mts	None	Diamond shape	5 mils width	Covered 15 mils in 40 mins horiz.	Dimmed and went cut	65
45	7 May	1940	1	65	Camp Hood, Texas	N and E	1000' Reddish greenish white	None	57 soo	None	Diamond shape	5 mils width	Covered 20 mils in 57 secs horiz.	Dimmed and went cut	65
65	8 May	2008 2017	1	65	Camp Hood, Texas	N and E	1500' Reddish greenish white	None	9 mts	None	Diamond	2 mils width	10 mils in 5 mts	Dimmed and went out	65
67	8 May	0930 1100	4	65	Tucson, Arizona	T, 90° turn to the N	4000 to 20,000	Horizontal then rapid climb at 45° angle	White	None	10-20 mts	None	Metallic circular	40-75' in diameter	Notionless to faster than jet	Climbed at 45° angle until out of sight	65

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