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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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## O There are a number of standard analytical processes that might be used if this problem should be considered worth a full blown effort. It might define in detail the research objectives to be used in relation to the questionnaire. After the areas of most profitable research had been determined, a logical next step would be to isolate the important elements in each problem area. A third step would be to set up means by which to make many useful cross-comparisons. Fourth, trend studies as well as area studies could be made. Finally, there might be an objective study on the attributes of available data. In summary, the limited central administrative support given to the project by Air Force, coupled with the extremely limited scope of the analytical work done thus far, has placed a strict ceiling on the kind of interpretations that can be made from material now available. √ Wait, let's look at the image again. The first line has "
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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.