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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 271 pages · text by 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. 6 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 26 …Summary of Observations of Aerial Phenomena in the New Mexico Area, December 1948 - May 1950 25…
  • p. 83 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 134 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 136 …of your letter to The Honorable, The Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C., and…
  • p. 148 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 149 …cc - Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 Department of the Army The Pentagon Washington 25, D…
  • p. 186 …to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington…
  • p. 200 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 204 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington, D…
  • p. 225 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
  • p. 249 …to The Honorable, The Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense Building, The Pentagon, Washington…
  • p. 262 …Director of Special Investigations The Inspector General Department of the Air Force The Pentagon Washington 25…
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
	19493 Dec	1805	1	R	Alamogordo, New Mexico	E to W In an arc downward	Green fringe of orange light	None	2 secs	None	Circular	Somewhat larger than Venus Disappeared behind building
154	4 Dec	1935	1	Unk	Albuquerque, New Mexico	E to W Nearly horizontal	Green	None	2-3 secs	None	Round	Marble at arm's length Went out like a candle
155	4 Dec	1935	2	Unk	Los Alamos, New Mexico	E to NE Sloping descent	Green 1/5 sec	Yes	Round Disappeared behind mt.
156	5 Dec	19301945	3	Unk	Carrizozo, New Mexico 40° above horizon	In dive	Blue-green None	Tear-drop Very slow	Disappeared
	5 Dec	2240	1	Unk	Tularosa, New Mexico	E to W Smooth arc downward	Blue w/yellowish red toward tail	Yes	1 sec	None	Streak of light	Appeared little longer than length of lead pencil at 6' Appeared to hit ground near Tularosa, New Mexico
158	9 Dec	1330	1	Unk	Farmington, New Mexico	Dropping vertically	500 ft.	Vertically down None	Char-red parachute or cargo net Disappeared

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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 an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 271 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.