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This 1952 memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence comes from H. Marshall Chadwell, the CIA's Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It answers the Director's request of 10 December 1952 and summarizes recent unidentified flying object incidents. These include the Tremonton, Utah sighting of 2 July 1952, a brilliant light over the Maine coast, and an alleged ground contact in Florida. It also reports plans with Dr. H. P. Robertson to form a panel of top scientists to review the subject within weeks.
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# --- Declassified by 058375 date 20 APP 1577 K. DURANT FOR: the Director of Central Intelligence STAFFER Equity Director (Intelligence) SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Objects Reguest of the Director of 10 December 1952 1. The following is a summary of the current situation with respect to the investigation of unidentified flying objects. Recent incidents include: a. Novices of ten (10) unidentified flying objects (unexplained on the basis of natural phenomenon or known types of aircraft), near Tremonten, Utah, on 2 July 1952. b. A very brilliant unidentified light over the coast of Maine for about four hours on the night of 10-11 October at a height computed to be two or three times that which can be sustained by any known device. c. Allerged contact with a device on the ground in Florida into this curser which left some presently unexplained after-effects. d. Numerous other sightings of lights or objects which either in configuration or performance do not resemble any known aerial vehicle or explainable natural phenomena. 2. In furtherance of the ILC action on 4 December, O/CI has been working with Dr. H. F. Robertson, consultant (former Director of Research, WBC), record establishing a panel of top scientists and engineers in the fields of astrophysics, nuclear energy, electronics, etc., to review this situation. Wholehearted cooperation has been secured by DI/USAF and ATIC, and a study by AD/DI, Dr. Robertson, and Mr. Durant of DI to ATIC in planning for Friday. It is hoped to organize the panel and undertake our five scientific review of this subject within the next two to three weeks. Distribution: I/O/I - 1 Opus/SI - 1 Prod/SI - 1 AD/SI - 2 H. MORSELL CHADNELL Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence
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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.