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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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CONFIDENTIAL 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 Harner of Disappearance Evaluation 123 1949/6 Oct 1800/1025 1 65 Nescaloro, New Mexico 180 above horizon Green None 7 - 9 secs None Round ½ size of thumb at arm'e length Loving slowly Disappeared behind a hill 65 124 6 Oct 1758 1 65 Alamogordo, New Mexico E to W Straight angular descent Cluish white possibly lit. Green time None 4 secs None Circular 3 times the size of Jupiter or Venus 50 per sec. 65 125 6 Oct 1700 1 65 Alamogordo, New Mexico 402° to 403° Green None 5 - 6 secs None Round Size of baseball at arm's length 65 126 6 Oct 1750 1 65 Albuquerque, New Mexico E to W Curved descent approach vertical Greenish white None 1 sec None Similar to very flare ½ size of thumb at arm's length Abrupt 65 127 6 Oct 1750 1 65 Waron, Hound, New Mexico E to W Horizontal Greenish white None 3 - 4 secs None Round 1½" - 2" in diameter App. that of meteor Tent out like electric light 65 128 6 Oct 1750 1 65 Albuquerque, New Mexico NE to ST At tail end of its course it arched over and coll Brilliant green None 10 secs None Tear drop Seemed to burn 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.