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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated October 1, 1958, reports that a civilian in Washington, testing new films and emulsions through a backyard telescope, photographed geometrically shaped flying objects passing between his telescope and the moon several times over three months. The writer asks for advice on how to obtain the photographs for analysis, noting that the man would likely release them only for a price. It also says a House committee on outer space has suspended its UFO hearings for several months.
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B3 MEMORANDUM FOR: Reported Photography of Unidentified Flying Objects 1. It has come to my attention that a civilian experimenting with new kinds of films and emulsions which he has been exposing through a telescope set-up in his backyard here in Washington. During the course of his photographic experiments in the last three months he managed, it is reported to me, to photograph on a number of occasions geometrically shaped flying objects as they passed between his telescope and the moon. I have not seen these photographs and have had no business to look for same but I have had them reported to me as a result of our investigation of photographic process which reportedly delivers a very high degree of resolution. Incidental to the examination of some of these high resolution photographs at his home, one of my men, I did notice the objects reported and in questioning of the man found that he had photographed different groups at several different times during the past three months. however, I would not like to overlook some evidences of an often reported phenomenon which might be of interest to and to the intelligence community generally. 3. reports to me that the photographs of these objects were remarkably clear and certainly indicated a phenomenon for which he had no ready explanation and for which in the past he found some considerably amounts of interest particularly in these reported materials, and I would therefore welcome your counsel and suggestion as to how we might get our hands on these materials to examine them firsthand and to make a more complete analysis of them. This is exceedingly cagey in his handling of these materials and would not permit anyone to borrow any of these materials. He explained that he was currently out of work and that he had had a couple of recent contracts with the Air Technical Intelligence Center at Dayton. A contact with the Air Force reveals that he has no contracts which are T=22
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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.