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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Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 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 Manner of Disappearance **Evaluation 62 1949/6 May 2040 2130 1 R Camp Hood, Texas W and N App 1200' dropping to 440' Alternating pinkish to green None 50 mts None Round ½ dollar diminishing to short quarter size Very slow Faded from sight (2)(1) 63 6 May 0105 1 R Los Alamos, New Mexico N to S 5° above horizon Was going down at an angle of 30 - 35° Green Fraction of a sec None Round App 1/8 size of full moon Very high rate of speed Disappeared west of Jemez Mts. (1) 7 May 2025 2105 4 R Camp Hood, Texas SE 1300' Green-white None 40 mts None Diamond shape 5 mils width Covered 15 mils in 40 mins horiz. Dimmed and went out (2)(1) 65 7 May 1940 1 R Camp Hood, Texas N and E 1000' Reddish greenish white None 57 sec None Diamond shape 3 mils width Covered 20 mils in 57 secs horiz. Dimmed and went out (2)(1) 66 8 May 2008 2017 1 R Camp Hood, Texas N and E 1600' Reddish greenish white None 9 mts None Diamond 2 mils width 10 mils in 9 mts Dimmed and went out (1)(2) 67 8 May 0950 1100 4 Unk Tucson, Arizona W, 90° turn to the N 4000 to 20,000 Horizontal then rapid climb at 45° angle White None 10-20 mts None Metallic circular 40-75' in diameter Notionless to faster than jet Climbed at 45° angle until out of sight (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.