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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	Shape	Apparent Size	Apparent Speed	Banner of Disappearance	Evaluation
90	1949 A Aug	2030	1	65	Alamogordo, New Mexico	N Constant slight curve earthward	White (bluish)	Yes	1 sec	None	Round	App smaller than clenched fist	Similar to falling star	Font out	65
91	6 Aug	2020	1	65	Albuquerque, New Mexico	Descending to earth vertically	15° above horizon	Descending to earth vertically	Green	None	1 - 13 secs	None	Round to pear shape	500 wett built about 1/5 mile away	10° in 1½ secs at 2 miles	Discipated	65
92	6 Aug	2000	1	65	White Sands, New Mexico 40° above horizon	Straight line to earth	Obscerver color blind	None	1 sec	None	Round	Half size of ring-nail at arm's length	Clightly faster than ordinary falling star	Discipured behind sand dune	65
93	6 Aug	2000	1	65	Alamogordo, New Mexico	200°	30° above horizon	Long slow curve to earth	Bluish green	Yes	1 sec	None	Round	Tip of thumb at arm's length Burned out	65
94	10 Aug	0010	2	65	Killoon Basc, Texas	E to W	30° angle headed down	30° angle headed down	Blue	Yes	3 - 4 secs	None	Oval	Hood size Sudden dispercance	65
95	10 Aug	2030	1	65	Killoon Basc, Texas	N to S	30° above horizon White	Yes	5 secs	None	Similar to cemot Discipared	65

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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.