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.
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Number Date Time Number of Observers Rollibility 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 Wanner of Disappearance 179 1950/24 Feb Between 1315 and 1400 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico Circled then E Considerable altitude Aluminum Yes 2 None Spherical Rather large Erratic Unknown 180 25 Feb 1545 and 1555 12 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico Heading toward Ground 300 - 350 above horizon Flashing silver None 5 secs to 2 mts None Circular like plane fuse-like Small airplane From very slow to very fast 181 25 Feb 2115 and 2115 0 65 Albuquerque, New Mexico Toward S App. 20° above horizon Almost vertical Bright white Yes 1½ mts None Tear-drop 3 times size of a shooting star Slightly slower than falling star Appeared to burn out 182 25 Feb 0200 and 0200 1 65 Dahl, New Mexico NEF White chalk to green Yes 30 mts None Round 10 per 2 mts Disappeared behind mountain 183 25 Feb 1410 and 1410 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico S to K 1 to 3 miles at 300 above horizon Total illic None 5 mts None Colong 10 - 15° 40 mph Veget below horizon 1
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.