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This CIA Scientific Intelligence memorandum, signed by a Cooper, is a poorly legible review of a dispatch dated 23 October 1955 reporting two flying saucer or disc-like aircraft. An interviewed witness saw only lights that rose vertically and passed overhead silently, and the memo judges his account insufficient to confirm anything unconventional, urging interrogation of the others. It recalls that the Robertson group found earlier U.S. sightings posed no security threat and notes a Project Y at a firm developing a high-performance vertical take-off aircraft.
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1. A delegation from Prussia, C-103, dated 23 October 1955, reported the sighting of two flying saucers or dice-like international divers. An interview with the delegation of these airships failed to confirm in several respects the information given in the delegation. 2. His observations were limited to flying two lights which initially cross vertically and then approached the train and passed over land at a high altitude. In failure to observe the body of the object and had no feeling as to whether it was real, circular or even square. His only reason for desiring to unconventional motion to the object was that it made vertically aligned to glide in a manner unlike any aircraft he had previously seen. However, in view of the fact that it was clear, that he thought the aircraft quite high (9000 feet) and that his observations were unobviously conventional to the circumstances that he had seen a flying object, too with confidence except to give to his observation. The fact that no noise was heard may also have influenced his opinion on the unconventional characteristic of the object. It also failed to confirm the existence of the train official following the incident. It is by belief that the unconventional circumstance could not confirm the existence of any unconventional circuit. However, he was not in a position to have a look at were the other members of the party. A very careful interrogation of the other members is in order. 3. Do years ago, in Robertson healed a group which investigated U.S. flightings or flying causes. This group was able to explain almost all the flightings and reached the conclusion that these phantom representations to threat to the security of the U.S. Thus if the present flightings
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.