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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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Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec TOTAL Astronomical 6 9 5 7 17 5 15 22 13 5 16 4 118 Aircraft 2 3 1 5 13 9 13 11 4 2 2 0 66 Balloon 0 0 0 2 3 0 8 2 1 0 2 0 18 Insufficient Data 4 4 5 7 13 8 12 12 9 5 6 0 35 Other 3 8 4 10 12 3 14 4 6 7 2 2 77 Satellite 2 4 3 9 20 4 42 30 4 4 17 3 142 Unidentified 0 0 1 2 2 1 4 5 1 0 0 0 14 Pending 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 5 3 11 Total 17 25 19 42 61 35 109 83 35 23 44 12 562
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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.