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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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summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) 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 Slope Apparent Size Apparent Speed Hunter of Disappearance Evaluation 125 15497 Oct 2120 1 65 Albuquerque, New Mexico Straight vertical drop 350 above horizon Yellow to green None 1 sec None Round Half a noon Dropped 150m on 1 sec Desert Sandia Mountains 65 130 10 Oct 0406 1 65 Los Angeles, New Mexico SE to NE 3,000' above observation pt. Parallel to surface of earth Drilliant white Yes 4-5 secs None Small Appeared to be slower than a meteor Disappeared 65 131 10 Oct 0107 1 65 Sandia Base, New Mexico W to E 450 above horizon Bluish green Yes 15 secs None Round Size of fist at arm's length Slow Died out 65 132 10 Oct 0107 1 65 Sandia Base, New Mexico ST to NE 450 above horizon Executed dives Greenish blue w/red sparkles trailings Yes 4 secs None Round Size of fist at arm's length Slow Paded out 65 133 10 Oct 0107 1 65 Sandia Base, New Mexico N to NE 450 above horizon Green None 15 secs None Round Size of fist at arm's length Slow Burned out 65 134 11 Oct 2010 0 65 Roswell, New Mexico Appeared moving to N& ambling slightly to E Laneuvered up & down Light green turned orange Yes 45 secs None Round Size of baseball 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.