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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	Hamor of Disappearance
150	1949/13 Dec	2005	3	65	Alenogordo, New Mexico	Stationary then began to move downward slowly and to right	5,000° White ember red green	None	9 mts	None	Circular	1 - 1½ times size of average st. light at a distance of 6 miles Object took on brilliant green color, picked up speed and faded from view
195	1950/8 Jan	2230	7	65	Alenogordo, New Mexico	E to W Up & down and horizontal	White changed to green & red	None	65 mts	None	Star-like	Slightly larger than planet Venus	Slowed app. 150 to 200 from E to U during 45 mins it was observed	Stopped observation
151	7 Jan	2215	2	65	Corona, New Mexico	From ST to SE Desconding	Yellowish white orange blue or.	Yes	10 secs	None	Round bell shape	Same as cup 6" in diameter at arm's length	Compared w/fast jet fighter	Disappeared behind mt. range
152	6 Jan	2220	1	65	Los Alamos, New Mexico 80° - 40° above horizon	Horizontal	Incendies/cont Green	Yes	2 secs	None	Evel with trail Disappeared behind troops

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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.