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 or Vertical Color Train or Trail Duration of Observation Sound Shape Apparent Size Apparent Speed Manner of Disappearance Evaluation 205 1950/22 Mar 0010 3 Unk Sandia Base, New Mexico SE to NW Lino parallel w/line tangent to the earth Blue center with orange exterior None 1 1/2-3 secs None Round like ball from roman candle 1 1/2 secs 30° azimuth Burned out 206 1 Apr 0420 1 R Los Alamos, New Mexico S to N 75° above horizon White light None 1 sec or less None Round Disappeared behind building 207 17 Apr 1530 10 R Los Alamos, New Mexico 2,000' above horizon Maneuvered up & down & from side to side Light green bright as tin foil None 20-30 secs None 1/16" at arm's length Gradually went out of sight (1) 20 Apr 1530 1 R Los Alamos, New Mexico Maneuvered up & down Bright metallic None 15-30 mts None Roughly circular Est. 9' in diameter Faster than conventional aircraft Lost sight of object (2) 209 1 May 1510 2 Unk Kirtland AFB, New SW to NE Apparently a few thousand feet Was angling downward Silver lucid metallic object None Not quite a sec None Cylindrical Tremendous Flash of brilliant white light (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.