United States · UNKNOWN; memo 1950-03-22

New Mexico (unspecified), 1950

Reported

An FBI field office memorandum from March 1950 records, in flat bureaucratic prose, that an investigator had reported three flying saucers recovered in New Mexico, each carrying three bodies of human shape about three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture and bandaged in a manner like the blackout suits used by test pilots. The memo is real, it is declassified, and anyone can read it.

Where
New Mexico (unspecified)
When
UNKNOWN; memo 1950-03-22
Who reported it
UNKNOWN
How direct
Third-party informant relaying alleged Air Force investigator report
Entities described
9 alleged bodies
Handled as
UNVERIFIED THIRD-HAND CLAIM
Evidence class
GOV-3

What the record resolves

A suit

The record carries a garment, a helmet or an enclosure. The body inside it is not described.

Metallic cloth and bandaging, in a memo. Almost no anatomy is exposed in the description at all.

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

The document is authentic and the claim inside it is not. It is an agent relaying what an informant said a third party had reported, the FBI never investigated it, and the Bureau itself has published a note saying so. This is the clearest case in the archive of a genuine government file that documents a rumour rather than an event.

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