Documents / FOIA release
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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flying objects" is a national security problem of concern to operations as well as to intelligence. 2. Operational problems are of primary importance and should be attacked at once. They include: a. Taking immediate steps to improve identification of "phantom" so that in the event of an attack, instant and positive identification of enemy rockets or plans could be made. b. Determination of what if any utilization should be made of these phenomena by US psychological warfare planners and what, if any, defenses should be planned in anticipation of Soviet attempts to utilize them. 3. Intelligence problems in... a. Knowledge of the exact nature of these phenomena especially as regards (1) Whether any are susceptible to control, and can be thus utilized for either military or psychological offense or defense. (2) Whether any are predictable and can thus be taken advantage of in military or psychological operations. b. The present level of Russian knowledge regarding these phenomena. Possible Soviet intentions and capabilities to utilize these phenomena to the detriment of US security interests. . The reasons for silences in the Soviet Press regarding "flying sunsers". 4. Intelligence responsibilities in this field as regards both collection analysis can be discharged with maximum offootiveness only after much more
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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.