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This Central Intelligence Agency briefing from 22 August 1952 presents the Office of Scientific Intelligence review of the Air Force flying saucer investigation, with attachments dated 14 and 19 August. It traces sightings from 1947 and explains most as balloons, aircraft, astronomical bodies or atmospheric effects. About 20% remain unexplained. The briefing rules out US or Soviet weapons and space ships. Its main concerns are psychological warfare, false alerts to air defense, and civilian saucer groups.
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## . individually or together may have outstanding importance in the accuracy of a person's report. These factors generally cannot be determined adequately. The psychological factors are: Kental conditioning by newspaper stories of earlier reported sighting Individual emotional response with respect to the unknown. Desire for publicity resulting in "embroidering" of facts or complot: fabrication. Emotion of chase of interceptor pilote. The major physiological factors are: conditions of fatigue, anorea. Existence and extent of eye strain immediately preceding sighting. Insufficient night adaptation. Now let us take up the explanations which have been used to account for well over a thousand cases. Under the category of: "Maininterpretation of identifiable objects," ATIC feels that the most prevalent misinterpretations have been: fire buloons, aircraft, astronomical bodies, atmospheric 2.
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. 29 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.