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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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are confirmed, it did not be expected that these transient local circuits were actually taken flying around the U.S. and were the cause of U.S. public circulation. 4. The UAS to support a Project "Y" at And Aircraft Ltd. in case for the development of conventional carrier-like aircraft. However, this development is still in the early research and development stages with three or more years being required before the production of a first project. If the development proves successful, the calculations indicate that such an aircraft might have a very high cell size (up to 100,000 feet) with cross up to 1,000 miles per hour, a range of 760 miles and rate of close or 110,400 feet a minute. A vertical take-off characteristic would, of course, be extremely valuable. Project Y is being directed by John Preece. The project is reported to have put in his crucial idea for the flying routine into a group of Groups just after World War II. The controls may also have observed differences from this Group group. (It is suggested that you ask General Safford to report on the progress of the Air Force project at the IIC meeting.) KING COOPER, JR. Artificial Intelligence Scientific Intelligence DISTRIBUTION C=1g & 1 - A=3 1 - DD/I 2 - JD/CI 2 - JSD/SI
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.