Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from the Planning and Coordination Staff, dated 2 May 1957, answers three questions about CIA work on UFOs. It says the Air Force and CIA both still follow the subject, and that Phil Strong of OSI is responsible for it. It recounts the 1952 to 1953 OSI panel study and the small remaining ATIC Blue Book effort, and reports that little of importance has been received. It also mentions a British and Canadian flying saucer design project run by the Canadians.
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5. For your information I learned from Hoverton and Strong that the British and Canadians have a very sensitive project in this field. Apparently the Canadians run the project which has completed the design of a flying saucer. Hoverton states that he has seen the prototype. Hoverton describes the saucer as "just that" in shape with jets on the circumference. The jets are in vertical position for take-off and are shifted horizontally for forward movement. Strong, speaking from memory, believed the design called for operations at 60,000 feet or better. The responsible aircraft company is the Avirl, a jointly-owned British and Canadian outfit. According to Strong, the USAF initially provided some of the funds, but is no longer doing so. Hoverton advised that the Air Force has "some projects" along this line. --- Office of the Director Planning and Coordination Staff PCS/DCI 0 - 1 - File Chrono
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.