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This informal CIA memo, dated 5 July 1952 and signed by Edward Tauss, Acting Chief of the Weapons and Equipment Division, gives an overall evaluation of "flying saucer" reports. It says that of 1,000 to 2,000 reports received by ATIC, most were phony, known U.S. equipment or natural phenomena, and fewer than 100 credible reports remained unexplained. The memo recommends that CIA surveillance of the subject continue while CIA interest is kept from the press and public. It also notes a briefing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base arranged for 8 August 1952.
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DD/I AD/SI DAD/SI P. G. STRONG F. C. DURANT H. CHANGING M. J. CARDER J. B. QUIGLEY b-3
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.