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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence, from the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, evaluates recent publicized UFO reports. It cites a California incident traced to an aircraft, reports linked to a Gemini launch attributed to fragments causing radar reflections, and a Patuxent, Maryland radar case blamed on malfunctioning circuitry. It finds no evidence that UFOs are of foreign origin or threaten United States security, says the Office of Scientific Intelligence concurs with Air Force conclusions, and attaches Air Force sighting statistics.
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RECEIVER FOR: Director of Central Intelligence SUBJECT: Evaluation of LTO's 1. This response is for your information in response to your request. 2. As you know, there has been a recent uptake of reports of UFO's (unidentified flying objects) in news media. Luckily publicized UFO reports during the past 18 months include: the July 1985 carneyville, California, incident in which the UFO was later identified as an aircraft; the UFO's reportedly associated with two Gerini launching in April 1984 which probably were due to fragments causing radar reflection; and the Patuxent, Maryland, incident in December 1984, in which two objects were apparently tracked by radar, but later analysis attributed the sighting to multifunctioning radar circuitry. Evaluation of these and other reported phenomena reveals no evidence that UFO's are of foreign origin or are a threat to the security of the United States. 3. The Office of Scientific Intelligence/ID SAT monitors reports of 170's, including the official Air Force investigation reports, and consults with the Air Force conclusions, which are unclassified and available to scientific investigators. Of some L21 TWO reports investigated during 1934, only 3% are classed as unidentified; all investigations are still pending. Attached are the official Air Force statistics for the time period 1934-1933 by year end for 1934 by month. BORNED V. CHANGERJAIN Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.