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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TIAL Number Date Time Number of Observers Availability 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 Warning of Disappearance Evaluation 200 1950 21 Mar 1520 1 65 Sandia Base, New Mexico E to ST App 45° above horizon 2 objects silver None 10 mts None Round App size of dime at arm's length Excessive to jet flight Gradually faded from view 65 201 21 Mar 1200 1 65 Sandia Base, New Mexico IE to SE 40,000-60,000' Varied from shiny silver to shady gray None 30 mts None Round Size of end of thumb at arm's length About same as jet aircraft Disappeared 65 202 21 Mar 1515 1 65 Sandia Base, New Mexico E 75° above horizon White None 5 mts None Round Smaller than fist at arm's length App. 600-700 mph Disappeared from range of vision 65 203 21 Mar 1300-1330 4 65 Kirtland AFB, New Mexico SC to S 40° - 50° above horizon 21g-zng motion up down Bright silver None 1 mt None Round Size of dime at arm's length About same as fast jet aircraft Disappeared from range of vision 65 204 22 Mar 1100 11 65 Kirtland AFB, New Mexico ST change to N 25,000 to 30,000' Horizontal Tan to brown None 5 - 5 secs None Flying wing About size of golf ball hold at arm's length Extreme high speed Disappeared 65
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.