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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated June 5, 1957, records an interview with a person whose name is deleted, on the subject of unidentified flying objects. The subject is described as a calm Oakland businessman and WWII intelligence officer. He claimed extrasensory powers, invisible space ships traveling in a fourth dimension, and an encounter during a May 1957 trip to a Yucaipa Valley convention. There, he said, a light landed in the desert. The memo notes that no classified information was given.
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Interview with on the subject of unidentified flying objects 1. In appearance and actions, in a very average sort of person. He has no prominent features. His height is about 5'9"; weight about 150 - 160 pounds. His compulsion is slightly calm. He was born and raised in the Pacific northwest and spent most of his adult life in the lumber business at Oakland, California. He served in WWII as an intellligence officer for the 157 A. A. Fattallion, advancing from private to major. During the interview he was very calm and relaxed at all times and talked with an earnest belief in what he had to say. 2. he has powers of extra sensory perception, brought about by a conditioning of the mind, which permit him to see and sense things about him of which others without this power are unaware. He explains that space ships are built about but they travel in a four direction and are invisible unless they do will. People with highly developed senses are permitted to know or be aware of these space ships. The ships are free outer space and are here only for good. He has no fear of their presence at any time. 3. explained that he has the ability to travel in the fourth discussion. This happens when he is asleep. He explained that this is not a crash that his twin body or other body travels. 4. About the same age he had his first encounter with an unidentified flying object. This encounter occurred, as he stated, in the fourth dimension. He found himself in a strange place which he believed to be the wiles of the Pacific northwest when the cancer appeared. The cancer stopped once distance easy and a screen, similar to a 27 screen, appeared. A total of eleven appeared on the screen, too, at a time, speaking in a friendly manner. 5. On May 11 and 12, 1957,飞机 his con airplane, flew from Seattle, California, to Yucaipa Valley to attend the Pacific Great Convoy. On this flight, he reported, they were escaped on the a different occasion by flying saucers. Because of the saucers was determined by one of the airplanes two compasses when always acted strongly then saucers were near.
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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.