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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 271 pages · text by OCR, confidence 97%

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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.

CONFIDENTIAL Summary of Sightings of Unknown Aerial Phenomena, 17th District OSI (cont) Page 22 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 117 1949 27 Sep 0300 1 Unk Sandia Base, New Mexico SE to NW 15° - 20° above horizon Traveling in arc toward earth Bright green None 2 secs None Round Same size as perimeter fence light at distance of about 200 yds. 45° in 2 secs. Brightened then went out 118 27 Sep 0130 1 Unk Sandia Base, New Mexico S to N 20° above horizon Made a gentle arc toward earth Dark blue Yes 2 secs None Conical w/tail twice its diameter Looked like a sky rocket 50° in 2 secs. Burnt out 119 27 Sep 0130 1 Unk Sandia Base, New Mexico 45° above horizon Moving tangent to earth Green None 1 sec None Round Fist at arm's length 20° in 1 sec Burnt out 120 30 Sep 2257 1 Unk Sandia Base, New Mexico S to W 55° to horizon Yellow orange None 2 - 3 secs None Slightly larger than shooting star 200 - 300 mph 121 2 Oct 2110 1 R Los Alamos, New Mexico 20,000 - 30,000' Went up & then down Bright green Yes 3 secs 122 6 Oct 1745 1 Unk Mescalero, New Mexico 15½° above horizon Descended in slight arc Dark green None 30 secs None Round Big ball Disappeared behind hills CONFIDENTIAL

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Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 97%); expect the odd misread word. 271 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.