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This Central Intelligence Agency file from 1952 contains several related papers. A July 1952 memorandum from the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence notes recent radar and visual sightings and says a special study group is under way. A later memo from H. Marshall Chadwell says objects seen at high altitude near U.S. defense installations are not attributable to natural phenomena. The file also includes a draft memo to the National Security Council and a draft NSC directive making identification of unidentified flying objects a priority.
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USOANERLY FOR Deputy Director/Intelligence OBJECT: Recent Sightings of Unexplained Objects In the past several weeks a number of rather and visual alibraries of unidentified curial objects have been reported. Although this office has maintained a continuing review of such reported objects during the past three years, a special study group has been sent to review this subject to date. O/CI will participate in this study with 0/12 and a report should be ready about 25 August. PALM L. OJAEK 2-2 Acting Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence CDI: FCD: PL0 (23July52) 0a5/CI - 3 AS/CI - 2
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. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.