Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 26 April 1976, is a heavily redacted reply to a request for analytical guidance on UFOs in a case involving private UFO research. It reports that an Agency science and technology official found no apparent government program to identify or solve the UFO phenomena. Some Agency offices and personnel were monitoring the subject, but not on an official basis. The official offered to evaluate further information, so the case was kept open.
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IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS ANY APPARENT PROGRAM IN PROGRESS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION/SOLUTION OF THE UFO PHENOMENA. DR FEELS THAT THE EFFORTS OF INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS, ARE VITAL FOR FURTHER PROGRESS IN THIS AREA. AT THE PRESENT TIME, THERE ARE OFFICES AND PERSONNEL WITHIN THE AGENCY WHO ARE MONITORING THE UFO PHENOMENA, BUT AGAIN, THIS IS NOT CURRENTLY ON AN OFFICIAL BASIS. DR FEELS THAT THE BEST APPROACH WOULD BE TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AND IN-PACT DEVELOP REPORTING CHANNELS IN THIS AREA TO KEEP THE AGENCY/COMMUNITY INFORMED OF ANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS. IN PARTICULAR, ANY INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT INDICATE A THREAT POTENTIAL WOULD BE OF INTEREST, AS WOULD SPECIFIC INDICATIONS OF FOREIGN DEVELOPMENTS OR APPLICATIONS OF UFO RELATED RESEARCH. 4. DR HAS ADVISED US THAT HE WOULD EVALUATE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WE MIGHT RECEIVE AS WELL AS DISSEMINATE SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS THROUGH APPROPRIATE CHANNELS SHOULD IT BE WARRANTED. 5. WE WISH TO STRESS AGAIN, THAT THERE DOES NOT NOW APPEAR TO BE ANY SPECIAL PROGRAM ON UFOS WITHIN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY AND
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.