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.
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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 Homer of Disappearance Evaluation 1925 30 Aug 2300 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico Almost straight fall 500 over overhead Almost straight fall Bright green w/red-dish tail Yes 1 - 2 secs None Much larger than meteor Burned out 65 113 15 Sep 0025 1 65 Albuquerque, New Mexico 500 above horizon Yellow red 6 secs None Round Size of baseball Surst & appeared to disintegrate 65 112 16 Sep 0250 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico 7 to E 3,000' Horizontal Orange None 15 secs None Call shape Larger than calling star Easter than airplane slower than falling star Disced then disappeared completely 66 10 Sep 2015 1 65 Sandia Ease, New Mexico 17 to S 450 above horizon Dark yellow None 3 - 4 secs None Round Size of baseball Unburned 65 114 19 Sep 0600 2 65 Tucson, Arizona H App 4000' Grayish white None 2 mts None 2 to 3 ft across 600 mph Fled from view 65 116 27 Sep 0800 1 65 Sandia Ease, New Mexico From SE 450 above horizon Traveling tandem to earth Bright blue to white None 4 secs None Round About site of softball at 300 yds. 450 in 4 secs. Obsured by building 65 118 27 Sep 0200 1 65 Sandia Ease, New Mexico T6 The M 100 above horizon Yellow Yes 3 - 4 secs None Round Size of baseball at 25 yds. Same rate as shooting star Died out 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.