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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 1954, reports on a meeting of the Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel held in September at the Naval Research Laboratory, Anacostia. The panel, chaired by James A. Van Allen, discussed high altitude and satellite vehicles and the International Geophysical Year. It covers rockets such as the Viking and Aerobee, a phased plan for artificial satellites, and funding from the National Science Foundation. The author also records a conversation with Van Allen about the instrumentation needed for high altitude rockets. The memo contains no UFO material.
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11. Mr. willer of the National Defense Foundation gave a brief account of the commission of the upper convoy rocket research. Two million, three hundred thousand dollars is presently available and about 70% of this will be transferred immediately to the for procurement and accounting purposes. The balance of the rocket project funds - 4,000,000 - will become Available next year. 12. Following adjournment of the panel meeting, I spent a couple of hours with Mr. Allen, who has served under me for a time during world war II. Mr. Allen was one of the key figures in the development of two VT fires under medical gardens and was one of the officers assigned to introduce the fuse to the Pacific Fleet. In our conversation, I mentioned the difficulty that apparently would be encountered in the US program of designing scientific equipment which would stand the high odds encountered in most with atomic rockets, particularly with solid propellant. I mentioned specifically the VT's considered in stage two of the tokai cluster vehicle. Mr. Allen said that three should be no such difficulty. He pointed out that the VT fires contained fine miniaturist tubes, a battery and a transmitter, and that this instrument, with unsuccessfully no failures, would cost 20,000 US dollars hired from the work force. He pointed out also that in the 1930s, it was often used in use for some time, the last record covering 30 hours of instrumentation for course my research on the operation of withotoxis 60. In a said that he saw no difficulty in beginning instrumentation for high altitude projects which would cost 1,000 US dollars. In regard to the VT, we were generally, he warned thoroughly with LA. Mr. Reeves, that the alternative plan also was to launch a slug. He told that if the level government priority could be established, with airspace and control by an outside high level scientific group, it would almost certainly be possible to put a slug in orbit by the time of the VT and possibly even put up an instrumented vehicle. J. SINOVA P. O. STRIXD CIRCULI Distributions artg 1-400 collection 2 = 2x. 3.200 1 / 1 1. / 2. 1. Copied From Nearly Illegible Original
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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. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.