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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.

  • p. 42 …again 152 27 Nov 1745 1 Socorro, New Mexico E to W 100° - 40° above horizon…

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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	Broke into 2 pieces & disappeared	Banner of Disappearance	**Evaluation
140	1949 16 Oct	2021	2	65	Albuquerque, New Mexico	N to S Horizontal	Red orange	Yes	10 secs	None	Sound	1/3 - 1/4 size of moon Broke into 2 pieces & disappeared
141	14 Oct	1410 1415	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	S to E Front-Green & silver near-Telc Blue	Yes	3 - 4 secs	None 1/8 size of Full moon	500 mph or more
142	71 Oct	2150	1	65	Roswell, New Mexico	SL to HW	30° above horizon Very bright white	None	20-30 mts	None Unknown
143	22 Oct	0228	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	MW to SE	On horizon Bright green 2 secs	None 4 times size of a clark	150 mph	Disappeared behind a wall
144	22 Oct	0220	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	Vertical	50 - 100 ft. Green 1 sec	None	Like Clare	Small Went out
145	19 Nov	1950	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	Disappeared to HW 2 objects bluish green None Stationary out dismayed with speed of meteor	Disappeared from view
146	19 Nov	2152	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico	Vertical Green thorn yellow 2 secs	None

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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.