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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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)
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.