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.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
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 Disappeared behind building Disappeared gradually Disappeared gradually 85 1649/6 Aug 2000 1 65 Las Cruces, New Mexico E to W Bluish Green Yes 1 - 2 secs None Round Ligger than falling star Disappeared behind building 65 86 6 Aug 2000 1 65 Las Cruces, New Mexico E to W 3020" to 9040" above horizon Curve point up then fall in almost vertical direction Reddish blue & green Yes 4 - 5 secs None Round App 6" in diameter Disappeared gradually 65 87 C Aug 2000 1 65 Alamogordo, New Mexico Vertical 2020" to 7035" above horizon Straight vertical flight Bright white slight reddish cast Non 3 secs None Round ½ size of moon Exploded then pieces died cut 65 86 6 Aug 2000/2005 1 65 Alamogordo, New Mexico E to W 204" to 1207" above horizon 100 off vertical White 2 secs None Large as auto spotlight at arm's length Disappeared behind building 65 89 6 Aug 2015 1 65 Alamogordo, New Mexico SH Straight flight app 200 vertical dec-line Whitish yellow (red trail) Yes 1 sec None Round Twice size normal falling star Extremely fast - twice as fast as falling star Disappeared behind mountain 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.