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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”1 page
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mary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District CCI (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 Sound Shape Apparent Size Apparent Speed Number of Disappearance Evaluation 135 164911 Oct 10451100 265 Alanogordo, New Mexico F7 to SE If size of B-29 appeared to be150,000' White None 10-15 secs None Round dish shape 2" in diameter at arm's length Very fast compared to/falling star Faded from view 136 12 Oct 1115 365 Roswell, New Mexico S to HE 3,500' Smooth arc White(silver) None 45-60 secs None Round probably elliptical Faster than jet aircraft Nest beyond range of vision 137 12 Oct 1115 365 Alanogordo, New Mexico Appeared from S&veared off to NE If size of D-29 appeared to be35,000' Smooth arc White or aluminum None 45-60 secs None Round ball 35,000' 4" in diameter 1,500 mph Faded from view 38 12 Oct 1340 465 Tucson, Arizona From NE to SW 30,000' Horizontal White or silver None 15 secs None Round 50 - 100" in diameter 1,000 mph Faded from view 139 14 Oct 1420 365 Los Alamos, New Mexico W to E 20,000' Level flight just above horizon Greenish blue-white trail Yes 2 secs None Round Appeared as a 12" disco Turned out CONFIDENTIAL
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.