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 Rollability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction or Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal or Vertical Color Train or Trail Duration of Corservation Sound Shape Apparent Size Apparent Speed Lanner of Disappearance Evaluation 1950 II Mar 0100 1 Rolloman AFB, New App 270° About 30° above horizon at distance of 50 miles Straight flight Changed from light orange to blood red toamber to light green None 5 mts None Ping pong ball 17G pong ball held at arm's length Disappeared from view 191 16 Mar 1100 10 Farmington, New Mexico N to NE Turned on their axis & maneuvered up & down Bright luminous as tin cell None 3-5 mts None Flat spherical 1 to 6" Faster than conventional aircraft Discontinued observation ? 16 Mar 1000 10 Farmington, New Mexico NE Over 20,000' Skyward at 60°-60° Bright aluminum None 20 mts None Level & oblong 1/10" - 1/2" cold at arm's length Faster than conventional aircraft Gradually disappeared 193 17 Mar 0310 1 Los Alamos, New Mexico Toward earth Toward earth Reddish then Green None 1 sec None Appeared to fall to earth 194 17 Mar 0500 1 Los Alamos, New Mexico NE Level flight Greenish yellow None 3 secs None Round ½ size of full moon Moderate Like light going out ---
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.