Documents / FOIA release
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 The man said he had held recent contracts with the Air Technical Intelligence Center, which the Air Force said were no longer active.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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in effect at the present time. Appears to feel that he has some real evidence of the existence of unidentified flying objects in his photography and I am sure he would consider delivering them to somebody only for a price, yet unspecified. By copy of this B3 I would bring him up to date on memorandum to this subject in case you would like to take it up unilaterally with him. ## B6 B3 4. For background information it is also reported to you that our original contact with was set up through and therefore there is some information on him already available in their files. You are also undoubtedly aware that the House committee investigating outer space and space phenomena has recently been addressing itself to the problem of the unidentified flying objects and has been seeking to review the evidence for certain House representatives to determine what validity this concept might have. According to the best information I have at the present moment, after several hearings on this subject this committee has suspended its investigation for several months after which time it intends to reopen them. B3 B3
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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.