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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	Sneepe	Apparent Size	Apparent Speed	Hannor of Disappearance	**Evaluation
57	1949/20 Apr	App 1745	3	65	Tucson, Arizona	ME to SD or SW Silver	None	12 - 40 minutes	None	Cigar or snusage shine	From E-29 to a city block	300 - 600 mph	Faded from view	65
58	30 Apr	2215	1	65	Albuquerque, New Mexico	E to 7	590 above horizon Blue green	None	2 secs 20	None	Round	Tenth of moon	2 seconds 2 degrees	Nest cut	65
59	3 May	2143	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	S to N	100 - 150 above horizon Bright white light 10 secs	None Very fast up to 1,000 mph 65
60	3 May	2126 2143 2205	1	65	Ice Alamos, New Mexico	S to N	100 - 150 above horizon White 5 - 7 secs each time	None Large - similar to size of airplane landing lights	Very fast 65
61	3 May	2126 2140	1	65	Ice Alamos, New Mexico	20E to NN	100 - 150 above horizon 2126-white 2140-red 5 sec lat; 2 sec 2nd	None 2120-baseball diamond lights, 2140 slightly larger than firebox lights	Some speed as aircraft landing 65

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