1949 05 6310596 Losalamos Newmexico 365
COLD OPEN. ” The file is notable as a contemporaneous U‑S Air Force observation report of an unidentified aerial phenomenon, now publicly available through The Black Vault. PROVENANCE. The document was released to the public by The Black Vault, a digital archive of declassified government records.
- Agency
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Date
- JUL 18 · 2026
- Release
- Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
- Source document
- View the primary source documenthttps://archive.org/details/1949-05-6310596-LosAlamos-NewMexico-365-
Episode notes
COLD OPEN. This is a reading of document number 1949‑05‑6310596, a Los Alamos, New Mexico incident report dated May nineteen forty‑nine, catalogued under the title “Los Alamos New Mexico 365.” The file is notable as a contemporaneous U‑S Air Force observation report of an unidentified aerial…
Source document: https://archive.org/details/1949-05-6310596-LosAlamos-NewMexico-365-
Questions about this case
- What was 1949 05 6310596 Losalamos Newmexico 365 about?
- COLD OPEN. ” The file is notable as a contemporaneous U‑S Air Force observation report of an unidentified aerial phenomenon, now publicly available through The Black Vault. PROVENANCE. The document was released to the public by The Black Vault, a digital archive of declassified government records.
- Why was this case declassified?
- This material was released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. The originating source document is linked in the case notes above so the citation chain is fully auditable.
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