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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.

  • p. 3 …Carroll Director of Special Investigations headquarters USAF Washington 25, D. C. 1. In a liaison meeting…
  • p. 4 …Technical Director of the Operations Analysis Section, Headquarters, Second Air Force, 1944-45. Since 1948, Dr…
  • p. 5 …6 cys, Director of Special Investigations, Headquarters USAF 1 cy, CG, Air Materiel-Command; Wright-Patterson…
  • p. 65 …Bureau liaison determined on the morning of October 9, 1950 from OSI headquarters that the investigations…
  • p. 67 # DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON 25. D. C. AFOIC-CC…
  • p. 69 …bring it to the attention of OSI Headquarters. 510C1101950 RECORDED - 84 EX-29 OCT 4 1950…
  • p. 80 …a memorandum suitable for dissemination to OSI headquarters. NOTE: Cincinnati, Ohio, advised the Cincinnati office he…
  • p. 85 …time operating under the name of with headquarters and printing facilities in Noblesville, Indiana. With regard…
  • p. 86 …Inasmuch as Seattle is the District Headquarters for the Intelligence Agencies in the Pacific Northwest, reports…

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Hon. J. Edger Hoover Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Mr. Hoover:

The inclosed letter, subject: "Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft," is forwarded for your information and any cooperation you may be able to extend.

As indicated in the letter it is desired to place this subject in its proper perspective as part of the normal USAF requirement for information of air technical intelligence interest.

This document contains information affecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws. Title 18 U.S.C. Sections 793 and 794. Its transmission or the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law."

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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.