Documents / FOIA release
This 11 June 1957 Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, from the Planning and Coordination Staff, answers three questions about how UFOs are being followed. It says the Air Force and the CIA both still follow UFOs and that OSI's Phil Strong is responsible for the subject at the CIA. It recounts the 1952 OSI panel and its January 1953 report and describes the small remaining ATIC effort left from Project Blue Book. It also reports a British and Canadian saucer-shaped aircraft project.
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5. For your information I learned from Hoverton and Strong that the British and Canadians have a very sensitive project in this field. Apparently the Canadians run the project which has completed the design of a flying saucer. Hoverton states that he has seen the prototype. Hoverton describes the saucer as "just that" in shape with jets on the circumference. The jets are in vertical position for take-off and are shifted horizontally for forward movement. Strong, speaking from memory, believed the design called for operations at 60,000 feet or better. The responsible aircraft company is the Avirl, a jointly-owned British and Canadian outfit. According to Strong, the USAF initially provided some of the funds, but is no longer doing so. Hoverton advised that the Air Force has "some projects" along this line. Office of the Director Planning and Coordination Staff
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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.