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.
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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 Inner or Disappearance 29 1949/6 Mar 2020 2 Unk Camp Hood, Texas N 40°E 59° above horizon Blue-white light None Ball like flash Basketball “Fixed flash” 30 6 Mar 2045 1 Unk Camp Hood, Texas From S 81°W to S 60°W From 21° above horizon to 6°31' above Light colored head orange trail Yes None Round head with trail About 10° in length 31 7 Mar 0115 1 Unk Camp Hood, Texas N 40°E 63°15' above horizon Brilliant blue-white None Like flash bulb Flash bulb 32 7 Mar 0130 1 Unk Camp Hood, Texas N 16°W 27°30' above horizon Bright blue-white None Like flash bulb Basketball “Fixed flash” 33 7 Mar 0130 0200 2 Unk Camp Hood, Texas S 20°W 26° above horizon Bluish white None Ball like flash Flash bulb 34 7 Mar 0145 1 Unk Camp Hood, Texas N 60°E Dropped vertically to ground Orange 2 secs None Tear-drop 2' by 1' Disappeared behind trees
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.