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This Central Intelligence Agency office memorandum, dated 26 January 1960, went from the Chief of the Applied Science Division to the Deputy Assistant Director for Collection. It comments on student papers about flying saucers that Dr. Thornton Page sent in, so the Deputy Assistant Director could use the comments when replying to him. The memo says most of the 14 essays made a solid attempt to evaluate the evidence and kept subjective views apart from objective reporting. It also notes that no essentially new substantiating evidence came out of the exercise.
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Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Deputy Assistant Director, Collection, SI DATE: 26 January 1960 FROM Chief, Applied Science Division, SK subject: Flying Saucers-Student Papers Thereon Received from lr. Thornton Pags 1. The following comments are submitted for your information and use in replying to Dr. Page. The students' papers are returned herewith. 2. These student papers are in many respects interesting and most of them reflect a solid intellectual attempt to evaluate the evidence. The problem apparently remains a stimulating one, and especially suitable for exercising the rational powers of minds both young and old. Most of the students have done a good job in separating subjective views from objective reporting. It seems significant that no essentially new substantiving evidence emerged from this exercise. Enclosures: 14 essays W. E. LEXON B3
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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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.