Documents / FOIA release
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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”1 page
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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 Lanner of Disappearance **Evaluation 51 1949/12/apr 1950 1 65 Albuquerque, New Mexico SE to INT 20° above horizon White None 8 secs None Sound Round 1/8 size of moon 150° in 8 secs Extinguished 52 15 Apr 1650 1 65 El Paso, Texas Straight up About 30° Grayish Yes 15 mts None Thin smoke trail Very thin Discipated 65 53 10 Apr 0140 2 65 Flagstaff & Williams, Arizona INT App 12,000' to one, 78 - 100 miles to other observer Greenish blue 1 - 2 secs None Dall-like 100 matt light bulb Disappeared behind obstacle 65 54 22 Apr 0005 1 65 Clifton, New Mexico 7 to 2 20° drowning slowly Aluminum None 2 mts None Round, flat thin, disc-shape Over 15° in diameter Disappeared behind mountains 65 55 24 Apr 1053 5 65 White Dune, New Mexico 1 21-29° White light yellow 50 secs None Ellipsoid Tremendous rate of speed Disappeared due to distance 65 56 27 Apr 0450 2 65 Springer, New Mexico 2 groups going 12 groups going 2 Tall above 30,000' Silver-white None 2 grps totaling about 20 sec Yes Round Very small Very fast well above speed of sound Disappeared from view 65
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.