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This Central Intelligence Agency file from January 1965 pairs a memorandum on UFOs from the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence with a Contact Division memo about the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). The first memo concludes that there is no evidence UFOs are of foreign origin or a threat to US security, and it attaches Air Force statistics. The second records a 19 January 1965 meeting with NICAP's Richard Hall, who described the December 1964 radar sightings at Patuxent Naval Air Station.
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Director of Control Intelligence SUBJECT: Evaluation of UFO's 2. This memorandum is for your information in response to your request. 2. As you know, there has been a recent opaque of reports of UFO's (unidentified flying objects) in news media. Lately published UFO reports during the past 18 months include: the July 1955 sunnyville, California, incident in which the UFO was later identified as an aircraft; the UFO's reportedly associated with the Gerini launching in April 1964 which probably were due to fragments causing radar reflection; and the Putuxent, Maryland, incident in December 1984, in which two objects were apparently tracked by radar, but later analysis attributed the sighting to multifunctioning radar circuitry. Evaluation of these and other reported phenomena reveals no evidence that UFO's are of foreign origin or are a torrent to the security of the United States. 3. The Office of Scientific Intelligence/ID SAT monitors reports of TFD's, including the official Air Force investigation reports, and concurs with the Air Force conclusions, which are unclassified and available to scientific inventories. Of some LTD reports investigated during 1954, only 3% are classed as unidentified; all investigations are still pending. Attached are the official Air Force statistics for the time period 1954-1953 by year and for 1961 by month. DURLEY F. CLEMENSIAH Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.