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Evaluation of UFO's

Central Intelligence Agency · 1965-01-02 · 4 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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	1854127	1855125	1856122	1857121	1858120	1859119	1860118	1861117	1862116	1863115
Astronomical	50	184	143	417	105	53	66	75	67	73
Aircraft	63	103	63	113	57	20	22	37	19	24
Billion	103	94	130	150	111	65	155	115	62	57
Intelligent Data	53	63	61	120	90	72	93	74	64	55
Other	0	0	0	9	16	0	21	69	77	61
Satellite
Unidentified	45	25	15	16	11	13	14	12	15	13
Total	507	543	366	1095	625	257	355	535	469	393

ASTACHYICAL SIGHTINGS

Meteors	92	79	33	179	163	100	137	119	94	57	118
Mars & Planets	44	52	131	144	56	40	45	78	36	23	64
Other	1	4	3	16	7	4	3	5	5	5	5
Total	157	155	222	341	231	144	235	205	135	85	100

Jones, Hallucinations, Unreliable Reports and Psychological Causes	6	17	17	57	23	23	12	17	11	15	17
Missiles and Locks	1	1	3	2	6	14	12	12	9	13	7
Collections	6	4	3	2	7	10	9	3	3	0	4
Stores & Fireworks	4	8	6	8	3	5	7	4	5	3	5
Mirrors & Inversions	2	4	1	5	2	4	5	6	3	0	2
Search & Groundlights	6	14	9	12	8	5	6	1	3	2	6
Clocks & Controls	3	2	1	9	5	2	4	5	4	5	4
Chief	2	0	1	2	6	1	4	3	5	2	2
Birds	7	2	6	1	1	0	3	2	2	2	2
Pear Analysis	7	0	7	27	2	3	6	8	0	1	0
Vehicle Analysis	1	2	4	1	5	4	6	3	2	3	5
Physical Specimens	6	5	3	5	10	3	7	4	16	3	6
Intralite Lecy	0	0	0	0	1	0	9	3	3	3	1
Other	7	4	0	9	5	3	3	3	1	4	5
Total	53	63	61	120	90	72	95	74	61	55	73

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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.