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Flying Saucers (PUBD Is Unknown)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1952-06-02 · 26 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This CIA file on flying saucers includes a memorandum from Director Walter B. Smith to the Director of the Psychological Strategy Board. Smith says unidentified flying objects may matter for psychological warfare as well as intelligence and operations. The file also holds an Office of Scientific Intelligence study, draft NSC and Secretary of Defense papers proposing a centrally run research program, a briefing on the Air Force's small ATIC section under Captain Ruppelt, and a Project Blue Book paper on weather and research balloons.

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has tried, unsuccessfully, to hand the baby to Air Defense Command. ] Of the essential processes that might be used if Air Force considered

the inquiry worth a full blown effort, so could list the following:

Research objectives should be defined in detail in relation to the questionnaire. The questions asked in the present collection directive are admitted to be inadequate even for the limited case-history approach. Further, the errors are not processed in such a way as to easily permit

the errors are not processed in such a way as to easily permit the

deterioration of the lines of research and analysis that should be followed.

As there has been no preliminary determination of areas of most profitable research, there is no way at this time by which to isolate the important elements in each of the problem areas. No studies have been made, for example, to establish categories of the objects reported by shape, size, color, etc., or to show such things as shortest, longest and average duration of sightings of

objects of various kinds.

These deficiencies have conspired against making cross-comparisons. There have been no studios, for example, that would compare certain weather conditions with the appearance of certain colors of lights.

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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. 26 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.