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This is a 31 October 1955 memorandum from the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Scientific Intelligence, signed by an Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. It reports on debriefings of four observers who saw objects from a train at night. They described a luminous object rising rapidly and rotating, with lights like eyes, which then turned sharply into horizontal flight. The memo concludes that the evidence is not firm enough to show that a radically new type of aircraft had been developed and put into operation.
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# O . [ . ] O . LIGHTINGS OF DYING CINEMAS OR DISCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT conventions can probably be explained as strong climbing aircraft or gliders. Further observations will probably be required before the matter can be completely resolved. In the opinion, however, the evidence does not appear sufficiently firm to warrant the conclusion that the forces have developed and have in operation a radically new type of aircraft. ... rt Sewall v . M. THOMPSON GROVILLE, JR. Registrar Director Scientific Intelligence OSI:Scoville:gu (31 October 1955) tribution Orig & 1 - fsi 1 - ID/I 1 - OCI √1 - ASD/SI 1 - CN/SI 2 - AD/SI
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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.