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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 271 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 42 …Disappeared behind hills 46 31 Mar 2150 1 R Camp Food, Texas SW Est. 2,000…
  • p. 47 …small air-plane Relatively slow Over a hill 8 30 Jun 1630 1 R Seligman,Arizona…
  • p. 55 …in slight arc Dark green None 30 secs None Round Big ball Disappeared behind hills (1)
  • p. 56 …s length Moving slowly Disappeared behind a hill 124 6 Oct 1758 1 R Alamogordo, New…
  • p. 59 …a flare 150 mph Disappeared behind a hill 144 22 Oct 0220 1 R Los Alamos…
  • p. 158 …northeast horizon on the crest of a hill. He also advised that during the period the…
  • p. 178 …and disappeared, still gaining height over the hills and forests towards Stockheim.' Several other people in…
  • p. 179 …tham Hill. 7.50 tham Hill.7.30 Sat., 2.30. ing But The Truth. sville…
  • p. 260 …and the lack of buildings or of hills, make it possible to see long distances; increase…

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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	Lennar of Disappearance
39	1949/8 Mar	0103	1	Unk	Camp Hood, Texas	From N 56° W S 64° W	From 15° above horizon	Traveled in arc	Fale reddish nose whitish red trail	Yes None	Lemon w/tail Disappeared
40	13 Mar	2153	1	Unk	Albuquerque, New Mexico	NE to SW or SW to NE	20° above horizon	Descending slightly	Bluish or greenish white	Yes	2-4 secs	None	Length twice diameter of ball	1/2 diameter of full moon
41	14 Mar	09-00-16Z	1	R	Airplane enroute fr Honolulu to Canton Is 6°-12° above airplane at 0,000	Horizontal 10 secs	None	Nose like bullet 65° in 9 secs (1)(2)
42	27 Mar	1800 1805	1	Unk	Tucumcari, New Mexico	E to W	High in sky -app 30° above horizon Amber	None	25 mts	None	Long & narrow Faded out in distance	(2)
43	27 Mar	1800	1	Unk	Montoya, New Mexico	E to W	About 75° above Orange flame	None	10 mts	None	Long & narrow	Length-about 1/6 lunar diameter, width-about 1/5 length Faded out in distance	(2)

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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.