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] OFFICE OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS THE INSPECTOR GENZRAL BAL B EF a SUsIBOt:; (Unclassified) summary of Observations of /Aerial Phenonsna. —in the Hew Hexico Area, December 1948 - Kay 1950 SPHOtAL, Tigitey i TOs District Commander, 17th OST Distriet (16) Kirtland Air Force Bage, New Mexico i, Reference ig mode to your létter tranmitting a swmary of obeervations of serial phenomena, dated 26 May 1950. 2 I is evident that considerable research has gone into your compilation of reportei sightings. It is desired that your district office make a limited distribution of ‘the compilation entitled; Su…

SUBJECT: Studies of "Aerial he In aecordance wit! ; Investigations, @ letter ha: limited dissemination by th entitled: Summary of Sightid copies will be forwarded th ig considered to be appropr 2. Nearly every OST ! investigation concerning sig distribution of AIS! LetteraNe, 86g districts have forwarded Spo! fied aerial phenomena, Howe received in this Directorate) Office. Dissemination of a exceptions have been mafe to 3. The name of Dr. Lil material submitted by the 17 well kmown to the various ag fied aerial phenomena, Dr, pondence with the Air Force § and Development Board, Oping of the a…

Memo for General Carroll, eo Studies of "Aerial Phenomena® 6, ‘The occurrence of QRNBEMMMME Celestial phenomena is still of interest to the Directorate me and Development, DGS/0, Hq USAF, That Directorate haiwaa® | va AMC to continue research involving celestial phenomens feen fireballs, at the USAF Upper Air Research Station, 0§ @agM@NNME Mountain, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, In addition, a USER mam jhas been authorized with Land-Air, Ine., to provide add a Liities and personnel for optic and photographic study 0} ieee @elcestial phenomena in the area of Holloman APS, New Mexi@@py Th ig@mmld…

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ALBUQUERQUE INSTITUTE OF METEORITICS May 23, 1950 To: Lt. Colonel Doyle Rees, Commanding Officer 17th District, 0. 5. I. From: Lincoln LaPaz, Director Institute of Meteoritics Subject: Anomalous Luminous Phenomena (Seventh Report) Le In the second report of this series, dated 1948, December 20, the writer listed ten significant differences between the bright green horizon-= tally-moving fireballs observed in the interval 1948, December 5-20, and typical meteors, These differences were the following: (1) The horizontal nature of the paths of most of the December fir…

Lt. Colonel Doyle Rees - Page 2 Anomalous Luminous Phenomena (Seventh Revort; (6) In the case of gemuinc meteo the paths are directed ward all shee of the compass with equal vrequency Cn the c in the case of the green iret s lot f admissible approaca tors show that there i 1 Reed pronounced tender af the paths come in from the north Poe) the sinv. (7) The three groups of malous sreenish lurinous phenomena show a curious association Vann Ke MUL own ia teor showe ] none of these meteor showers normally produce extre nay fireballs, such as those recently ooserved. Hor example, vetion nek ned tir.…

q Gimua~ ¢@ To: Lt. Colonel Doyle Rees - Page 3 Subj: Anomalous Luminous Phenomena (Seventh Report) to move horizontally. However, a strictly vertical infall is also very rarely observed in the case of genuine meteor falls, 3. An analysis just completed of the time distribution of the green fireballs so far observed permits us to add an llth item to the differences given in paragraph 1 above, The graph of frequency local time which accompanies the present report shows that frequency of sighting of green fireballs (occurring at approximate], 2030) coincides in time with neither the frequency ma…