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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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## O 4. The USAF operates two projects, "Copher" and "Koby Dick", which involve the release of the large polyethylene type balloons. In all particulars, flight durations, tracking methods, etc., those flights are comparable to the U.S. Navy projects. At present, ATIAA-5 has no communication or liaison with these projects, but ATIAA-5 intends to use the same approach and reporting systems with the USAF projects as with the Naval contractors. ## Conclusion: By 1 Nov 52 ATIAA-5 should be receiving complete data on all weather, Navy upper air, and USAF upper air balloon releases. ## lates This paper is a short introduction to the "balloon phase" of Project Blue Book. For anyone desiring the complete information, such as agencies and personalities involved, channels and methods of communication, etc., it will be necessary to read the following supporting papers which are on file in ATIAA-5. ## a. Balloon Data Folder b. Miscellaneous Correspondence File - Letter 5 Sep 52, to: USAF Cambridge Research Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, subj: Air Force Upper Air Research Balloon Releases, and first indorsement thoroto. c. Air Weather Service Correspondence File - Letter 22 Sep 52, to: CG, ATS, subj: Climatology Data for Project Dluo Bock. d. U.S. Navy Correspondence File - Letter, 9 Sep 52, to: Air Branch, OIR, subj: OMR Upper Air Balloon Projects, and OMR answer thereto. e. Travel Report - Lt A. G. Flues, 25 Aug 52 to Washington, D.C. f. Travel Report - Lt A. G. Flues, 15 Sep 52, to Asheville, N.C. e. Travel Report - Lt A. G. Flues, 30 Sep 52, to Minneapolis, ## Minnesota.
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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.