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Unidentified Flying Object

Central Intelligence Agency · 1965-02-11 · 3 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This CIA memorandum from the Office of Scientific Intelligence, dated February 1965, analyzes reported UFO incidents from November 1964. It concludes there was no high altitude, ultra-high-speed UFO. It finds that the object a US Navy F-8C pilot saw on 19 November was probably a delta-wing fighter, possibly on MiG-21 reconnaissance during missile test firings. Also attached is a 1958 memo from Herbert Scoville, Jr. that refers a Photographic Intelligence Center report on a Mr. Fine's UFO photographs to the Air Force.

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UN FOR : Director, Photographic Intelligence Center

: Reported Photography of UFO's

: Your Name PIC-7-58, dated 1 October 1958, Subject

1. Your reference interesting memorandum has been reviewed thoroughly within this Office. Although my Applied Science Division assumes responsibility for UFO's, I considered it appropriate to refer this case to the Air Force wherein community responsibility lies. Referral was accomplished by forwarding a copy of your memorandum to AFCEI.

2. Your third paragraph opens an interesting question to which I am not at all certain I have the solution. Nevertheless, for you to picture Mr. Fine's photographs and determine more about his experiments, my suggestions are:

a. Test type approach him

perhaps as one interested in graphic research.

b seek advice from the AD/0 relative of approach with which he may well

HERGENT SCOVILLE, JR.

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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.