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This 1958 Central Intelligence Agency memorandum reports that a Washington civilian working with new films and emulsions on a backyard telescope said he had photographed geometrically shaped flying objects crossing in front of the moon several times over three months. One of the author's men saw the photographs while examining the man's high-resolution work. The man said he had held recent contracts with the Air Technical Intelligence Center, which the Air Force said were no longer active. He would not lend the materials and appeared willing to sell them. The memo asks how to obtain them for analysis and mentions a House committee's suspended UFO hearings.
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SUBJECT: Reported Photography of Unidentified Flying Objects has been experimenting with new kinds of films and emulsions which he has been exposing through a telescope set-up in his backyard here in Washington. During the course of his photographic experiments in the last three months he managed, it is reported to me, to photograph on a number of occasions geometrically shaped flying objects as they passed between his telescope and the moon. I have not seen these photographs and have had no business to look for same but I have had them reported to me as a result of our investigation of photographic process which reportedly delivers a very high degree of resolution. Incidental to the examination of some of these high resolution photographs at his home, one of my men, I did notice the objects reported and in questioning or the man found that he had photographed different groups at several different times during the past three months. However, I would not like to overlook some evidences of an often reported phenomenon which might be of interest to and to the intelligence community generally. ## B3 BC > B3 3. reports to me that the photographs of these objects were remarkably clear and certainly indicated a phenomenon for which he had no ready explanation and for which in the past he found some considerably amounts of interest particularly in these reported materials, and I would therefore welcome your counsel and suggestion as to how we might get our hands on these materials to examine them firsthand and to make a more complete analysis of them. This is exceedingly cagey in his handling of these materials and would not permit anyone to borrow any of these materials. He explained that he was currently out of work and that he had had a couple of recent contracts with the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Dayton. A contact with the Air Force reveals that he has no contracts which are
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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.