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Chronicle year

1950

1950-09-26 / New Mexico

FBI internal memos from 1950 document OSI concern over green fireballs and discs appearing near sensitive installations in New Mexico. Dr. Lincoln La Paz of the University of New Mexico concluded that roughly half the recorded phenomena were meteoric; the remainder he attributed to possible U.S. guided missiles or, if that interpretation was wrong, to guided missiles launched from the Ural region of the USSR.

1950-03-16 / Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico

On March 19, 1950, Miguel Angel Garcia Macias, a pianist, composer, and self-described ideographic inventor from Veracruz, Mexico, wrote to the President of the Commission of Scientific Investigation of the United States of North America in New York, describing his concept of stratospheric aerostats and attributing flying saucers to U.S. atomic technology. The letter, translated by Mrs. Sophia Saliba, was received by the FBI New York Field Office by April 7, 1950, and filed under case 62-HQ-83894, Serial 220.