65 hs1 834228961 62 HQ 83894 Section 6

Summary

Section six of FBI headquarters case 62-HQ-83894, covering serials 246 to 301 across 271 pages. Its principal item is an August 1950 summary on unexplained aerial phenomena near sensitive New Mexico installations, describing green fireballs, discs and meteors recorded since December 1948. It states that University of New Mexico meteor expert Dr. Lincoln LaPaz judged about half the events meteoric and suggested the rest might be guided missiles, and that the Air Force contracted Land-Air, Incorporated of Alamogordo to study them from observation posts near Vaughn. The section also holds 1952 teletypes reporting disc sightings at the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina.