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The Air Force Stand on Flying Saucers- as Stated by CIA, in a Briefing on 22 August 1952 (with Attachments, Flying Saucers, Dated 520819 and 520814)
Central Intelligence Agency · 1952-08-22 · 29 pages · text by OCR
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.
“United Press”3 pages
- p. 4 the plebanns and in December 1712 released sections of its secret report to the press. The…
- p. 21 …Finally, on July 29, General Sanford held a press conference in which he stated, that analysis…
- p. 23 …The public was somewhat preconditioned by the earlier Swedish reports of unidentified rockets and the press…
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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
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Cases discussed
- The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946 1946
going back to the Swedish sightings of 1946... unidentified rockets - The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Kenneth Arnold... reported nine discs flying in formation past Mount Rainier - Rhodes UFO photographs ("shoe-heel" photos), Phoenix, Arizona, 1947 1947
reports from a doctor in Phoenix, Arizona - United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho 1947
pilot and co-pilot of a United Air Liner at Boise, Idaho - Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings 1947
field staff members at Muroc Test Base, California - The Mantell UFO Incident 1948
interception was attempted at Godman Field Kentucky and the pilot — Captain Mantell — crashed - The Gorman Dogfight 1948
National Guard fighter pilot at Fargo, North Dakota... dog-fight with it - The Charles B. Moore Theodolite Sighting, Arrey, New Mexico 1949
April 1949 at White Sands... tracking a missile flight by theodolite, watched two discs - Fort Monmouth radar and T-33 sightings 1951
visual sighting from a plane over Sandy Hook coincident with a blip... New Jersey - The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
recent Washington sightings were possibly due to 'temperature inversions' - Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept 1952
Two F-94's with camera guns were vectored in... negative shows 'an object'
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 29 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.