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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 11

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 127 pages · text by 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. 3 …The observers of these phenomena include scientists, Special Agents of the Office of Special Investigations (IG…
  • p. 4 …Air Material Command USAF, and the Office of Special Investigations (IG) USAF. A logical explanation was…
  • p. 11 …FLYING SAUCER AASYQ The matter of flying saucers was discussed by Special Agent with Major General…
  • p. 91 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 102 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
Subj: Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena in the New Hexi Area, December 1948 - May 1950

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6 cys, Director of Special Investigations, Headquarters USAF

1 cy, CG, Air Materiel-Command; Wright-Patterson AFE, Ohio ATTN: Director of Technical Intelligence

1 cy, CG, Special Weapons Command, Kirtland AFE, New Mexico

1 cy, CG, Armed Services Special Weapons Project, Sandia Base New Mexico. ATTN: J-2

1-cy, GG, Headquarters, Fourth Army, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas ATTN: AC of S, G-2

1 cy, CO, Holloman AFB, New Mexico

1. cy, CO, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Cambridge, Mass.

1 cy, Director, Security Division, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Los Alamos, New Mexico. ATTN: Mr. B. O. Wells

1 cy, Federal Bureau of Investigation, El Paso, Texas

1 cy, Federal Burcau of Investigation, Albuquerque, New Mexico

1 cy, Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Pentagon Building ATTN: Dr. Joseph Kaplan.

1 cy, Research and Development Board, Pentagon Building ATTN:-Dr.H.E.Landsberg, Executive Director,-Committee-on Geophysics and Geography

1 cy, File

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 127 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.