65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_6

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65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_6 is indexed as a FBI record. 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.

Notable / anomalous element

• JURISDICTION FOR INVESTIGATION OF THESE PHENOMENA You will recall the investigation to obtain information concerning ose aerial phenomena is the jurisdiction of the Department of the Air Force. (OCR text, page 13)
• Meteors, aerial phenomena resembling meteoric material moving at high velocity and varying in color. (OCR text, page 2)
• McINDOO had no further information concerning instant planes or the objects dropped by them. (OCR text, page 192)
• Further, that the continued occurrence of unexplained phenomena of this nature in the vicinity of sonsitive installations is cause for concern. (OCR text, page 25)

Details

• Green fireballs, objects moving at high speed in shapes resembling half moons, circles and discs emitting green light. &. (OCR text, page 2)
• Discs, round flat shaped objects or phenomena moving at fast velocity and emitting a brilliant white light or reflected light. (OCR text, page 2)
• Meteors, aerial phenomena resembling meteoric material moving at high velocity and varying in color. (OCR text, page 2)
• Lapaz, Director, Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Merico, submitted an analysis of the various observations on May 23. (OCR text, page 4)
• He concluded, as a result of his investigation, that approximately half of the phenomena recorded were of meteoric origin. (OCR text, page 4)
• La Paz pointed out that if he were wrong in interpreting the phenomena as originating with U.S. guided missiles that a systematic investigation of the obser: vations should be made immediately. (OCR text, page 4)
• La Paz pointed out that missiles moving with the velocities of the order of those found for the green fireballs and discs could travel from the Ural region of the USSR to New Merico in less than 15 minutes. (OCR text, page 4)
• The Air Force entered into a contract with Lanb Air, Incorporated, Alamogordo, New Merico, for the purpose of making scientific studies of the green fireballs and discs. (OCR text, page 4)

Tags: FBI, Air Force, Flying discs, Unidentified object, Lights, Green fireballs, New Mexico, Discs, Fireball, Aerial phenomena