Documents / Official release
This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section, 62-HQ-83894 Section 6 (serials 246 to 301), collects FBI memoranda and correspondence from 1950 to 1952 on flying saucers. It covers green fireballs and discs seen near sensitive installations in New Mexico, Dr. Lincoln LaPaz's analysis, and the Air Force's Land-Air study known as Project Twinkle. It also holds an OSI summary, a USAF directive on reporting unconventional aircraft, a dissolving object reported by Philadelphia police, and letters from members of the public.
From the source:Release of 2026-05-08 Incident: N/A, N/A. The FBI's 62-HQ-83894 case file includes investigative records, eyewitness testimonies, and public reports concerning Unidentified Flying Objects and flying discs documented between June 1947 and July 1968. The records include high-profile incident accounts, photographic evidence from sites like Oak Ridge, TN, and technical proposals regarding potential propulsion systems. Additional topics include convention programs, researcher accounts, and extensive media coverage from the period. This file is partially posted on FBI vault with more redactions and some pages missing. Included here is the complete case file with several newly declassified pages and only minor redactions.
“Socorro, New Mexico”1 page
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Summary of Significance of Uniform Aerial Measurements, 17th District CSI (cont) Number Date Time Number of Observers *Reliability 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 Disappeared 23 1949/17 Feb 1000 1 Unk Grants, New Mexico Southward Vertical climb then levied off Gradual ascent White Yes None Oval Larger than meteor Disappeared 24 17 Feb App 100 VR Albuquerque, New Mexico W to E Brilliant white shifting to peach color 6 mts None Round shifting to ellipse 1 lunar diameter Disappeared 25 27 Feb 1905 1 R Los Alamos, New Mexico W to E Parallel to earth Green-white 2 secs None Not as fast meteor Disappeared abruptly 26 2 Mar 0010 1 R Los Alamos, New Mexico N to S "Low in sky" Horizontal Light 2 secs None Very fast Disappeared behind trees 27 3 Mar 0159 1 R Los Alamos, New Mexico Straight down Straight down Bright green Disappeared 28 6 Mar 2100 2 Unk Camp Hood, Texas From N 74° W N 81° W From 6° 45' above horizon Blue-white light Yes None Oblong 2' by 1' Not known
Official release, 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. 271 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.