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Flying Saucers (PUBD Is Unknown)

Central Intelligence Agency · 1952-07-01 · 19 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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has tried, unsuccessfully, to hand the baby to Air Defense Command.]

Of the essential processes that might be used if Air Force considered

the inquiry worth a full bloom effort, so could list the following:

Research objectives should be defined in detail in relation to the

questions. The questions asked in the present collection directive are

admitted to be inadequate even for the limited case-history approach. Further,

the answers are not processed in such a way as to easily permit the

the answers are not processed in such a try as to easily permit the

determination of the lines of research and analysis that should be followed.

An there has been no preliminary determination of areas of most profitable research, there is no way at this time by which to isolate the important

elements in each of the problem areas. No studies have been made, for example, to establish categories of the objects reported by shape, size, color, etc. or

to show such things as shortest, longest and average duration of sightings of

objects of various kinds.

These deficiencies have conspired against making cross-currents. There have been studies, for example, that would compare certain weather conditions with the appearance of certain colors of lights.

with the appearance of certain colors of lights.

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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.