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This Central Intelligence Agency letter, dated January 1959, replies to George Popowitch of the Unidentified Flying Objects Research Committee about his letter of 21 January 1959. He had asked about unidentified flying objects, national security, and whether the government was withholding information. The letter says a panel of experts earlier found nothing threatening to national security, and that this conclusion was made public. It adds that the U.S. Air Force holds sole government responsibility for UFO matters and that the CIA has no jurisdiction.
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Mr. George Fowritch The Unidentified Flying Objects Research Committee F. O. Lee 5642 Arizona, Ohio Dec 12. Paperback: This is in reply to your letter of 21 January 1979 in which you quoted an earlier letter to this Agency on the subject of Guidance on Flying Objects. We have also reviewed the copy of the Stageland Report which you enclosed. In your letter you have asked a number of questions concerning the subject of unidentified flying objects, how these affect national security, and essentially whether information in being withdrawn from the public, from six years ago than there was a question as to whether the rush of reported sightings occurring at that time eight years ago threat to national security, a peek of experts was called by higher authority to make an assessment of such possible threat. As you subtitially know from subsequent public information, this peek may lead the conclusion that there was nothing inital to our security in the matter. This conclusion was made public last year. The total responsibility for the Government in dealing with U.S. matters is vested in the U.S. Air Force and that is the department constant and responsible for covering the questions posed by organizations such as yours. This agency has no jurisdiction or responsibility in this area and is therefore not in a position to supply the information you have requested. Very truly yours, LEB a a 12 HH, 23 022160 ## Distribution: John E. Kearns Exeercive Officer Orig - adressee 1. Mr. Barns 1 - EMC. Register 1 - DOI
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.