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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Humber Date Time Humor 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 Humor of Disappearance Evaluation 163 1960/8 Jan 2220 1 Los Alamos, New Mexico Due T 600 above horizon Straight course Bluish white Yes 2 secs None Pointed Apparced as a point 100 per second Lurinosity stopped suddenly 164 9 Jan 2225 1 Los Alamos, New Mexico 750 - 800 above horizon Straight line Greenish white None 3 secs None Round -4 to -6 compared to Jupiter 250 per second Behind horizon 165 12 Jan 1900 5 Holloman, New Mexico To W Charmed altitude curiously White changed to green & red None 5 mts None Star like About same size of Venus Discontinued watching 166 25 Jan 0605 8 Hellman AZ, Low E to W Erratically up & down White changed to green & red None Short time None Star like About same size as Venue Disappeared 7/daylight 167 27 Jan 1715 1 Scullville, Low Jersey NY Ascending at about 60° angle White streak 30 mts ½ that of a fireball at close range Failed curiously 168 7 Feb 1950 2015 2 Albuquerque, New Mexico SSE to E 400 - 450 above horizon Horizontal Reddish Green Yes 4 - 6 secs None Round clogged trail twice size of evening star About same as falling star Fred's out in atmosphere
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.