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Untitled (Gives Information on Sighting, Nicap and Keyhoe)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1965-01-02 · 7 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated January 1965, holds handwritten notes on a radar sighting at Patuxent Naval Air Station. Radar tracked unidentified objects three times on December 19 between 3:15 and 3:30 P.M., including two objects moving toward the base at an estimated 6,000 miles per hour. The notes also record a request to evaluate recent UFO activity by 21 January 1965, and they mention NICAP and a magazine article claiming the Air Force was downplaying the subject.

  • p. 1 …On same ddt about Osam time checked with an FAA station of Salisbury, Md which had…

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asked 050 to evaluate info are what has happened in last 10 weeks on unidentified flying objects by 21 Jan 65 .

3 years ago Major Nelson, Patent; organized the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ) 1536 Acre Ave. N. 40 Washington, D.C. ( It is believed that Nelson is no longer with organization )

Current Issue of our magazine has article by Nicholas, disbelieving philomania 4 stating that AF is taxing to downgrade it because AF does not want the sops to known to public

several articles in Newspaper recently on flying saucers

Above info given to 19 Jan 65

Deadline for info - Llucro. 21 Jan 65

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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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.