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65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 006
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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 35
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 Coservation
Sound
Shape
Apparent Size
Apparent Speed
Manner of Disappearance
**Evaluation
1950 11 Mar
0100
1
R
Holloman AFB, New
App 270°
About 30° above horizon at distance of 50 miles
Straight flight
Changed from light orange to blood red to amber to light green
None
5 mts
None
Ping pong ball
Ping pong ball held at arm's length
Disappeared from view
(2)
191
16 Mar
1100
10
Unk
Farmington, New Mexico
N to NE
Turned on their axis & maneuvered up & down
Bright luminous as tin foil
None
3 - 5 mts
None
Flat spheriodic
1 to 6"
Faster than conventional aircraft
Discontinued observation
(2)
2
16 Mar
1000
10
Unk
Farmington, New Mexico
NE
Over 20,000'
Skyward at 60°-80°
Bright aluminum
None
30 mts
None
Oval & oblong
1/16" - 1/2" held at arm's length
Faster than conventional aircraft
Gradually disappeared
(2)
193
17 Mar
0310
1
R
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Toward earth
Toward earth
Reddish then green
None
1 sec
None
Appeared to fall to earth
(3)
194
17 Mar
0308
1
R
Los Alamos, New Mexico
NE
Level flight
Greenish yellow
None
3 secs
None
Round
1/4 size of full moon
Moderate
Like light going out
(3)
CONFIDENTIAL
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