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This CIA internal-use-only routing slip carries an attached memo dated 10 December 1956 titled Report of Unidentified Flying Object. A CIA employee reports that during a missile test launched from Cape Canaveral early on 8 December 1956, identified as a Viking rocket, the first on the Vanguard program, they saw a reddish light with two short tails. The light kept pace with the missile, then turned east. Added comments dated 1 January 1957 say the Air Force ruled out aircraft and weather balloons, and camera plates showed nothing.
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TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS NO. REC'D FWD'D DATE 1. EXEC Cwm 2. Shame after a game replay when is attacked. If it is ok, relate to me for signature malign. 2. ASD$ 19 3. EXEC Cwm 4. Lh, ASD 5. (retention) 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. FORM 1 DIC. SS 610 USE PREVIOUS EDITIONS CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY
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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.