Documents / FOIA release
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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pressures for extravagant explanations as well as for oversimplification. They consulted with a representative of Air Force Special Respects group; discussed the problem with those in charge of the Air Force Project at Wright field; reviewed a considerable volume of intelligence reports; checked the Soviet press and broadcast indices; and conferred with three of our consultants at MIT, all leaders in their scientific fields. The present small coals inquiry at ATIC, which thus far has been able only to use the once history approach, requiring each incident carefully to determine whether it can be explained or whether it must be put into the "unexplained" was considered a perfectly valid procedure but one that offered but in opening up explanations regarding the nature of those phenomena, at all told us, it would probably be found on the margins or just there of the present knowledge in the fields of atmospheres, afforded phenomena, taking into account the possibility in a factor to consider. A systematic
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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.