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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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 Fanner or Disappearance Evaluate ... 1949/3 Dec 1805 1 65 Alamnordo, New Mexico E to W In an arc downward Green fringe of orange light None 2 secs None Circular Somethat larger than Venue Disappeared behind building 65 154 4 Dec 1935 1 65 Albuquerque, New Mexico E to W Nearly horizontal Green None 2 - 3 secs None Round Marble at arm's length Went out like a cinder 65 156 4 Dec 1935 2 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico E to ME Sloping descent Green 1/5 sec Yes Round Disappeared within mt. 65 157 5 Dec 1960/1945 3 65 Cerritozo, New Mexico 400 above horizon In dive Blue-green None Tear-drop Very slow Disappeared 65 5 Dec 2240 1 65 Tularose, New Mexico E to W Smooth arc downward Blue v/yellow-red toward tail Yes 1 sec None Streak of light Apparred little longer than length of lead pencil at 6' Appeared to live ground near Tularose, Len. Mexico 65 128 5 Dec 1550 1 65 Farmland, New Mexico Dropping vertically 500 ft. Vertically down None Charred parachute or cargo net Disappeared 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.