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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006

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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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Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (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
	1949/30 Aug	2300	1	R	Los Alamos, New Mexico	Almost straight fall	90° over overhead	Almost straight fall	Bright green w/red-dish tail	Yes	1-2 secs	None Much larger than meteor Burned out
111	15 Sep	0025	1	Unk	Albuquerque, New Mexico 30° above horizon Yellow red 6 secs	None	Round	Size of baseball Burst & appeared to disintegrate
112	16 Sep	0230	1	R	Los Alamos, New Mexico	W to E	3,000'	Horizontal	Orange	None	15 secs	None	Ball shape	Larger than falling star	Faster than airplane slower than falling star	Dimmed then disappeared completely
3	18 Sep	2015	1	Unk	Sandia Base, New Mexico	W to S	45° above horizon Dark yellow	None	3-4 secs	None	Round	Size of baseball Unknown
114	19 Sep	0900	2	Unk	Tucson, Arizona	N	App 4000 Grayish white	None	2 mts	None 2 to 3 ft across	600 mph	Faded from view
115	27 Sep	0300	1	Unk	Sandia Base, New Mexico	From SE	45° above horizon	Traveling tangent to earth	Bright blue to white	None	4 secs	None	Round	About size of softball at 300 yds.	45° in 4 secs.	Obscured by building
116	27 Sep	0300	1	Unk	Sandia Base, New Mexico	To the N	10° above horizon Yellow	Yes	3-4 secs	None	Round	Size of baseball at 25 yds.	Same rate as shooting star	Died out

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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.