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 or Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color Train or Trail Duration of Observation Sound Shape Apparent Size Apparent Speed Banner or Disappearance Evaluation 184 1950 25 Feb 1545 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico H to STS Very high White to silver None 30 secs None Circular About size of 500 piece at its height Very fast Disappeared into glare of sun 65 185 25 Feb 1550 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico S or SW 12,000' Letalic None low seos None As large or larger than average plane Just Fried from view 65 186 25 Feb 1545 1655 14 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico NE to SW Overhead at from 4 to 10 miles Treveled n/a fluttering motion Silver None Very soos to 2 mph None Do all Very from 2 to small airplane Very fast 500 - 1500 mph 65 187 25 Feb 1655 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico E to W Ching silver 10-15 secs None Round About size of 2-25 inches Slow speed Disappeared behind tree 65 188 10 Mar 1600 1030 6 65 Phoenix, Arizona SE 40,000-50,000' Hoved upward at 00° angle Alum-ful or quick silver Yes 10 mts None Oval or oblong Price of food Extremely high 01appeared 65 189 5 Mar 1135 1300 4 65 Vaughn, New Mexico Treveled 1950 Straight Flight White None 1 hr 25 mts None Round Fing pong ball at arm's length 190 to 200 mph Censured observation 65 TOTAL
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.