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Unidentified Flying Objects

Central Intelligence Agency · 1953-03-31 · 2 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is a CIA memorandum dated 31 March 1953 from F. C. Durant of the Office of Scientific Intelligence about who should handle reports of unidentified flying objects. It notes that the Office of Current Intelligence had stopped following UFO reports. Durant proposes naming David Stevenson of the Applied Science Division as the action officer for all future UFO messages. He also recommends keeping only sample reports from the old file and destroying the rest.

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5. If the above plan appears suitable and you so desire, I'll prepare directive memos.

F. C. DURANT

OSI/FCDurantbm

B-3.

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1 - Chrono file

1 - Daily reading file

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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.