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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Thumbor 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 Armor of Disappearance **Evaluation -1 15:49 10 Aug 2200 2250 1 65 Camp Food, Texas S to N 300 above horizon Level Flight White w/yellow trail Yes 1 - 2 secs None Oval Size of shooting star 300 mph or Faster Faded out 65 2 10 Aug 2240 1 65 Camp Food, Texas N to S 6,000' or more Straight Flight with gradual incline Light ree dimishing to light yellow Yes 2 - 3 secs None Round w/jagged trail Much larger than evening star Turned up and disintegrated 65 105 11 Aug 2030 2045 2052 2105 0010 30 65 Camp Food, Texas N to S 45 - 60° above horizon Generally a level Flight White Yes 3 - 5 secs None Flash like a rocket or training flare Star size Faster than any plane observed Part cut like a light 65 12 Aug 0010 2 65 Filtech Case, Texas Due 7 in are 45° above horizon Straight & level Flight w/ascent descent description are Straight white Yes 10 secs None Broken circle resembling signal flare Head size Stuck dislucrance 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.