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(EST Pub Date) CIA's Role in the Study of UFO's, 1947-90, by Gerald K. Haines
Central Intelligence Agency · 1999-07-01 · 18 pages · text by OCR
This Central Intelligence Agency study by Gerald K. Haines traces the Agency's involvement with UFOs from 1947 to 1990. It draws on records from a file review that DCI R. James Woolsey ordered in 1993. According to the study, CIA concern was substantial until the early 1950s, and after that the Agency paid only limited attention. The study covers the 1953 Robertson panel and its finding that UFOs posed no threat. It also reports that U-2 and OXCART flights accounted for many sightings, and it describes CIA efforts to conceal its role.
“Open Minds”2 pages
- p. 10 …He told the committee members, however, that the Air Force would keep an open mind and…
- p. 11 …UFOs, Condon observed that he had an open mind on the question and thought that possible…
Sheffield, England, 4 March 1962
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 20 October 1960
Cases discussed
- The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Kenneth Arnold... sighted nine disk-shaped objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington - Roswell Incident 1947
Schiff called for an official study of the Roswell incident - The Mariana UFO Film 1950
Great Falls, Montana, on 15 August 1950... sunlight reflecting off two Air Force interceptors - The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
radar scopes at Washington National Airport and Andrews Air Force Base tracked mysterious blips - The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
Tremonton film were caused by sunlight reflecting off seagulls - The Passaic UFO Photographs (George J. Stock) 1952
Amateur photographs: Passoria, New Jersey, 31 July 1952 - The RAF Topcliffe "Perfect Flying Saucer" During Exercise Mainbrace 1952
during a recent air show RAF pilots and senior military officials had observed a "perfect flying saucer" - The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
The Robertson Panel, 1952-53; panel met from 14 to 17 January 1953 - The Alex Birch Flying Saucer Photograph, Mosborough 1962
Amateur photographs: Sheffield, England, 4 March 1962 - Ralph Ditter's Zanesville Saucer Polaroids 1966
The Zaneville photographs turned out to be a hoax - The Condon Report and the NAS Review, 1966 to 1969 1966
Visit of Dr. Condon to NPIC; Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects - The Majestic 12 (MJ-12) Documents 1984
one of the so-called Majestic-12 documents was a complete fraud
About this file
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. 18 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.