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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CONFIDENTIAL Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phonomona, 17th District OSI (cont) 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 Former of Disappearance Evaluation 169 1950/7 Feb 1945/2000 2 65 Botnion Tuoumeeri & Kirtland AFB, New Mexico Flat trajectory Fireball white Yes 2 - 4 secs None Over 1,000 mph Faded out suddenly 65 170 15 Feb 1530 1 65 Sardia Base, New Mexico From N7 to V 45° downward above horizon Apparred red & green Yes 30 None Round Theat of a normal marble Like shooting star trail Faded out 65 171 13 Feb 0510 5 65 Holloman AFB, New Mexico Climbed White and orange None 1 hr 44 mts None Round to cone shape Size of coffee cup at arm's length Stopped observation 65 172 20 Feb 0550 2 65 Holloman AFB, New Mexico Station- 1,000° above 5,000' mt. Stationery White None 5 mts None Round App size of 2 dollar hold at arm's length Stationary Disappeared from view behind cloud 65 172 24 Feb 1555 1 65 Albuquerque, New Mexico To N or ST 20° to 23° above horizon Straight flight White None 1½ mts None Round Compared in size to upper dark, portion of moon as it rises in E 1½ mts. to cover 29 65 CONTENTIAL
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.