Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence is dated 1952 and summarizes the state of the investigation into unidentified flying objects. It lists recent incidents, among them movies of ten objects taken near Tremonton, Utah on 2 July 1952, a brilliant light seen off the coast of Maine, and an alleged ground contact in Florida. It also reports that work is underway with Dr. H. P. Robertson to set up a panel of top scientists to review the subject.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
MONITORING FOR: The Director of General Intelligence STUDENT: Deputy Director (Intelligence) SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects HIGHER-DEVELOPED: Request of the Director of 10 December 1952 1. The following is a summary of the current situation with respect to the investigation of unidentified flying objects. Recent incidents include: n. Novices of ten (10) unidentified flying objects (unexplained on the basis of natural phenomenon or known types of aircraft), near Fremonten, Utah, on 2 July 1952. b. A very brilliant undetected light over the coast of Paine for about four hours on the night of 10-11 October at a height computed to be two or three times that which can be sustained by any known device. c. Alloged contact with a device on the ground in Florida late this summer which left areas presently unexplained after-effects. d. Numerous other eighties of lights or objects which either in configuration or performance do not resemble any. Local aerial vehicles or explainable natural phenomena. 2. In furtherance of the I/C action on 4 December, O/SI has been working with Dr. H. P. Robertson, consultant (former Director of Research, VGFA), toward establishing a panel of top scientists and engineers in the fields of astrophysics, nuclear energy, electronics, etc., to review this situation. Wholehavened cooperation has been secured by DI/USAF and ATIC, and a draft by AD/SL, Dr. Robertson, and Mr. Parent of SI to ATIC is planned for Friday. It is hoped to organize the panel and undertake substantive scientific review of this subject within the next two to three weeks. Distribution: LS/I - 1 Cons/SI - 1 Prod/SI - 1 ID/SI - 2 H. MOSHALL, CHADWELL Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence GST:ELC/mtw (10D3c52)
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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.