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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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## CONCLUSIONS

The Albuquerque Office, in a letter dated August 10, 1950, advised that there have been no new developments in connection with the efforts to ascertain the identity of the strange aerial phenomena referred to as green fireballs and discs. The Albuquerque Office advised that Dr. Anthony O. Mirarchi, Project Engineer, had been informed of the Bureau jurisdiction relative to espionage and sabotage and arrangements have been made so that the Bureau will be promptly advised in the event additional information relative to this project indicates any jurisdiction on the part of the Bureau.

## ACTION

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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.