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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VAL 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 Harmor of Disappearance Evaluation 1950 17 Mar 0307 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico Straight down Straight down Orange & Green Yes 2-2½ secs None Fremendous Explosion on impact with earth or dis- integration 65 196 17 Mar 0445 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico Formed an arc Formed an arc Green None 5 secs None Round Quite small Free fall Fell toward earth 65 197 17 Mar 0510 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico Located to clink, change color, secret com- ting appearance Green turning to yellow None 5 secs None Spherical ¼ size of moon Koderate Suddenly 65 17 Mar 0507 1 65 Los Alamos, New Mexico Earthward Earthward Yes 3 secs None Round ½ size of full moon Extremely fast Plunged to earth & 2 explosions were noted prior to disappearance 65 198 20 Mar 0115 1 65 Clovis, New Mexico Prod. MTT Above 12,000' White w/light blue Yes 1 - 2 secs None Spherical 2,000 mph Disappeared from view 65 CONFIDENTIAL
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.