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This memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, dated 4 September 1955 and signed by Herbert Scoville, Jr., Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, reports on a "Flying Saucer" event. After three of the four observers were interviewed, nothing confirmed that unconventional aircraft existed, and the objects were more likely normal jets or aircraft with a high rate of climb. The memo recommends that the observer who sent the original dispatch be interviewed alone rather than in a joint interview with colleagues.
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IORADUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence SUBJECT : Interview with After interviews with three of the four observers involved in the "Flying Saucer" event, there still appears nothing to confirm the existence of these or other particularly unconventional type aircraft. It appears more likely that the aircraft observed were normal jets or at the very best aircraft with high rate of climb. Since the aircraft seems to have been the prime mover in sending the original dispatch and ascribing so much confidence to the observation of these saucers, it is imperative that he be interviewed alone. Furthermore, he should be able to provide some expert testimony relative to the complexes which has not been mentioned in any previous correspondence relative to this trip. It is my understanding that C-2 is holding back on interviews with the aircraft postensively in order to wait for a joint interview with him and his colleagues. I would recommend that we try and avoid this procedure. Fidriit Smith . 6 11 . HERBERT SCOVILLE, JR. Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence Enclosure: Copies and 2
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.