Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file holds routing slips and a memo titled Report of Unidentified Flying Object, written by an agency employee. The employee saw a red flare-like object at night on 6 December 1956 while watching test 3018, the launch of a Viking rocket that was the first on the Vanguard program. The object flew north at an estimated 750 to 1000 miles per hour and then turned east. Comments added on 4 January 1957 say the Air Force ruled out aircraft and weather balloons, and camera plates showed nothing.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
REC'D FWD'D
1. EXEC Cwm 2. Shame
draft a ground report where is attached. If it is ok, return to me for signature making.
$\textcircled{1}$ Can you please send this to me?
2. ASD$ 10
3. EXEC Cwm
4. ASD
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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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.