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This 1952 Central Intelligence Agency file brings together papers on unidentified flying objects. A memorandum to the Director of the Psychological Strategy Board says the subject may matter for psychological warfare, intelligence and operations. A study by the Office of Scientific Intelligence describes the small Air Force section at Wright Field led by Captain E. J. Ruppelt, criticizes its case-by-case analysis, and recommends a centrally coordinated research program. The file also contains a Project Blue Book paper on identifying weather and research balloons.
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Mr. Strong has discussed with you some of the general features of this problem, and now I should like to describe briefly how the Air Force has organized its study of reports on unidentified flying objects and outline its methods. The administrative unit now handling the Air phenomena is the unidentified Flying Objects Section of the Aircraft Propulsion Branch of the Technical Analysis Division of Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright Field. ATIO TAD ALPBE UFO Seat. This small section is headed by an Air Force Reserve Captain, E. J. Ruppelt at Air Technical Intelligence Center, and assisted by two lieutenants and two secretaries. It is from this small group that the controlling collection directive to the entire Air Force originated flying sensors and it is to this small group that the flood of reports on unidentified-flying objects comes for collation and analysis. The strength and position of this central administrative group clearly indicates a low level of support, and, presumably, serious reservations in the Air Force regarding the value of extensive inquiry into the subject. Paradoxically 12
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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. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.