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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”1 page
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SENTENTIAL 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 Hanner of Disappearance Evaluation 147 1949 19 Nov 2152 1 Los Alamos, New Mexico Vortical Green 2 secs None 145 25 Nov 2000 6 Los Alamos, New Mexico E to W 15° - 10° above horizon Downward 10° from the horizontal Yellowish green 2 secs None Disappeared behind it. 149 27 Nov 1800 1 NoIntosh, New Mexico Vertical Loss than 2,000' Vertical descent Green None 1 sec None Shaped like a Flare Gene as a signal Flare Sure as falling signal Flare Same as signal Flare 151 27 Nov 1750 1 Hinslow, Arizona E to W 30° above horizon Bright Blue-white Yes 3 - 4 secs None Egg shape 27° hold at arm's length 3 - 4 secs to cover 15° - 20° of horizon Detailed cut 153 27 Nov 1745 1 Albuquerque, New Mexico E to W 20° - 5° above horizon Glowing descent Blue-white None 1° - 2 secs None Round Pencil or cursor at arm's length 60° - 70° in 1 or 2 secs Tens out then on then out again 152 27 Nov 1745 1 Socorro, New Mexico E to W 100° - 40° above horizon Arc Fale green to pale blue Yes 5 secs None Round Quite large Slower than meteor Piles out critically
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.