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.
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Humber Date Time Number of Observers Rollability of Observers General Area of Occurrence Apparent Direction of Flight Apparent Altitude Course Horizontal to Vertical Color Brain or Trail Duration of Observation Sound Shapo Apparent Size Apparent Speed Disappeared Disappeared in Distance 105 1949/12 Aug 0446 1 65 Killeen Dare, Texas SE to NF 30° above horizon headed down Headed down Reddish Yes 2 - 3 secs Yes Trail of flame Fairly long streak of flame Faded away 65 106 14 Aug 2135 1 65 Alanogordo, New Mexico Appeared 250 Disappeared at 120° 10 - 150° off vertical Reddish orange Yes 2 secs None Round Larger than Venus Disappeared 65 107 20 Aug 2130 2 65 Douglas, Arizona N to S 8,000' - 10,000' Flat trajectory None 6 - 10 secs None Round to oblong like inverted scenery Across size of single engine airplane 3500 to 4500 mph Disappeared in Distance 65 100 21 Aug 2115 5 65 Eogales, Arizona 45° at low level 900 at high level Horizontal to earth's surface Dull orange None 10 secs None Faster App size of volley ball 10 times speed of jet planes Distappeared in space 65 106 29 Aug 1345 1 65 Davis-Monthan AFD, Arizona SE to NF App. 50,000 Horizontal at 50,000' Brownish hazy color None 60 secs Sindlar to triangle with round edges Est. to be app. 4 of inch when observed at 3 ft. Terrible rate of speed Faded from view 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.