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FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 11

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 127 pages · text by GLM-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.

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Humor	Date	Time	Number of Observers	Reliability of Observers	General Area of Occurrence	Apparent Direction of Flight	Apparent Altitude	Course Horizontal or Vertical	Color	Train or Trail	Duration of Observation	Sound	Shape	Apparent Size	Apparent Speed	Later at Disappearance	Evaluation
200	1950/22 Tar	0010	8	65	Sandia Base, Ror Hexico	SE to HT Line parallel v/line tangent to the earth	Blue center with orange center	None	1½ - 3 secs	None	Round like ball from room candle 1½ secs 300 azimuth	Burned out	65
206	1 Apr	0420	1	66	Los Alamos, Low Mexico	S to H	75° above horizon White light	None	I see or less	None	Round Disappeared behind building	65
207	15 Apr	1530	10	66	Los Alamos, Low Mexico 2,000' above horizon	Uncovered up & down from side to side	Light green bright as tin foil	None	20-30 secs	None 1/16" at arm's length Gradually none cut of sight	65
	1530	1	65	Los Alamos, Low Mexico Uncovered up & down	Bright metallic	None	15-50 secs	None	Squarely circular	Est. 5' in diameter	Faster than conventional aircraft	Less sight of object	65
208	1 May	1510	2	65	Kirtland 22, New	S7 to HD	Apparently a few thousand feet	Has climbing downward	Silver lucid metallic object	None	Not quite a sec	None	Cylindrical Tromondous	Flush of brilliant white light	65

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