Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated 4 January 1956, covers responsibility within the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) for "Unidentified Flying Objects." The Division states that it has taken over responsibility for non-conventional types of air vehicles. It sets out how reports will be filed, forwarded to the Fundamental Sciences Area, or destroyed, and cites ATIC's Project Blue Book Special Report 11 as showing that such reports cannot be usefully analyzed. It also recommends destroying the old UFO files held by the Electronics Division.
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SUBJECT : Responsibility for "Unidentified Flying Objects" REFERENCE: 1. AD/SI Memorandum for the Record, 9 January 195% "Office Responsibilities for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles" 2. Special Report 11, Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects (Project Blue Book) by ATIC, dated 5 May 1955 1. In accordance with Refarence 1, this Division has assumed responsibility within OSI for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles. 2. This Division proposes to handle this responsibility in the following manner: a. Files will be maintained in ASD on incoming raw reports where, in our judgement, the subject matter may provide information bearing on foreign weapons' system research or development. b. Those reports which fit under a. above and also could conceivably provide information on foreign fundamental science developments, will be forwarded to Fundamental Sciences Area for review with a request for return to ASD for filing. c. Those reports which do not fit a. above and which could conceivably provide information on foreign fundamental science developments will be forwarded to the Fundamental Science Area for retention or destruction. d. Reports which fit under none of the above will be destroyed. e. A chronological file of all OSI correspondence and action taken in connection with the United States U.F.O. program will be maintained in ASD. f. A file of finished intelligence reports published by members of the United States intelligence community on U.F.O. will be maintained in ASD.
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.