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This U.S. Department of War release compiles 1949 records tied to Sandia Base, New Mexico. It includes a Sandia Base security inspection reply and a W. D. Crozier letter to Lincoln LaPaz. It also contains Crozier and Seely's report on collecting airborne copper particles after the July 24, 1949 fireball near Socorro, which they judged negative or inconclusive. LaPaz's sixth report on green fireballs disputes parts of that finding, and a Fourth Army report describes unusual lights around the Q Area at Camp Hood, Texas, in March 1949.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-22 Incident: 1948-1950, New Mexico. This file contains 116 pages of documentation from the Armed Forces Special Weapons Program (AFSWP) – the direct, post-World War II successor to the Manhattan Project – and from the U.S. Air Force – relating to a series of sightings and investigations in Sandia, New Mexico, from 1948-1950. This file contains 209 sightings of “green orbs,” “discs,” and “fireballs” reported near the military base. Witnesses reported unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) maneuvering, flying out of sight, disappearing, or exploding. The documents also include the results of contemporary investigations into residual copper powder found in some areas where sightings were reported. A few of these investigations became the basis for Project Grudge, which collected reports of unidentified flying objects from various other military installations – also included in this collection.
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# EADQUARTERS. SANDIA BASE ALBUQUERQUE. NEW MEXICO MAR 31 1949 DECLASSIFIED SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects Authority NW 91526 By DF | 0m NADA DGAS | 13 | 24 TO: The Chief Armed Forces Special Weapons Project P. O. Box 2610 Washington 25, D. C. ATTENTION: Chief, Intelligence & Security Division 1. Reference is made to letter this Headquarters, file SBID/1, dated 31 December 1948, subject as above. 2. Inclosed herewith are three (3) summaries of information from Fourth Army, dated 16 March, 18 March, and 24 March 1949, dealing with the reports of unidentified lights appearing in the vicinity of Camp Hood, Texas. 3. A conference was held at Los Alamos on 16 February 1949, to consider the unnatural phonomena that have been reported. Commander Richard Mandelkorn represented this Headquarters at this conference. His report of this conference as well as a transcript of the minutes of the conference are attached hereto. 4. It is requested that these inclosures be returned to this Headquarters for file, after they have served their purpose, inasmuch as they are the only copies on hand. FOR THE COMMANDING GENERAL: 5 Incls: Marvin Hearne 1. Memo, 18 Feb. 49 (SBRD-0-2173) 2. Sum. of Info, 24 Mar 49 w/sketch 3. Sum of Info, 18 Mar 49 w/sketch 4. Ltr 17 Mar 49 (HQS-4th 557) w/4 Incls 5. AEC Ltr 22 Mar 49 (in dup) w/Incl (HILL-5577) MARVIN F. POUND Capt., Infantry Adjutant Distribution: 1A & 2A - Addressee 3A - I&S File 4A & 5A - C1 Doc Lib
Report, from the pursue 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. 116 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.