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 Turner of Disappearance **Evaluation 96 1949/10 Aug 2035 1 65 Camp Hood, Texas E to S Level flight Yellow to orange Yes 1 - 2 secs None Like head-light of old car 60° in 2 secs Cut out 65 97 10 Aug 2035/2207/2220/2240 1 65 Camp Hood, Texas W to E 30° - 45° above horizon Level flight White Yes 3 - 4 secs None Round w/tail Larpe flare Greater speed than plane Earned out 65 98 10 Aug 2040 1 65 Camp Hood, Texas N to S 30° above horizon Horizontal w/slight arc Orange w/white tail Yes 5 - 5 secs None Rocket 20 mm. tracer ammo Very great similar to tailing star Light gradually diminished 65 99 10 Aug 2100 7 65 Killen Dase, Texas S 50° above horizon Soing up Continued climbing at 30° angle until disappearance Bright orange Yes 5 secs None Reddish ball with long firey tail Head size Disappeared 65 100 10 Aug 2100/2120/2215/2250 7 65 Camp Hood, Texas 40° - 70° above horizon 21, 3 & 4 almost horizontal 1/2 closest vertical White with orange Yes 1 sec for each one None Round with trail Larpe star Great speed Tent cut like a light 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.