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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum for the record, dated 9 February 1956, explains how a division within the Office of Scientific Intelligence will handle its newly assumed responsibility for unidentified flying objects. Raw reports bearing on foreign weapons or fundamental science are to be filed or forwarded, and all others destroyed. The memo cites Project Blue Book Special Report 11 in saying such reports cannot be usefully analyzed. It also recommends destroying the raw and obsolete UFO reports held in the Electronic Division.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT : Responsibility for "Unidentified Flying Objects" REFERENCE: 1. AD/SI Memorandum for the Record, 9 January 1956, "Office Responsibilities for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles" 2. Special Report #11, Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects (Project Blue Book) by ATIC, dated 5 May 1955 1. In accordance with Refarence 1, this Division has assumed responsibility within OSI for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles. 2. This Division proposes to handle this responsibility in the following manner: a. Files will be maintained in ASD on incoming raw reports where, in our judgment, the subject matter may provide information bearing on foreign weapons' system research or development. b. Those reports which fit under a. above and also could conceivably provide information on foreign fundamental science developments, will be forwarded to Fundamental Sciences Area for review with a request for return to ASD for filing. c. Those reports which do not fit a. above and which could conceivably provide information on foreign fundamental science developments will be forwarded to the Fundamental Science Area for retention or destruction. d. Reports which fit under none of the above will be destroyed. e. A chronological file of all OSI correspondence and action taken in connection with the United States U.F.O. program will be maintained in ASD. 5. A file of finished intelligence reports published by members of the United States intelligence community on U.F.O. will be maintained in ASD.
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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.