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This Central Intelligence Agency filing is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, in Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It supports the CIA's motion for summary judgment. It traces Larry W. Bryant's 2008 FOIA request for records of a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japanese 747 encounter over Alaska and records of similar airborne UFO encounters. It also describes the fee dispute and the searches the CIA ran. No records of the meeting were found, and three documents from other agencies were referred to them.
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Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 I operation responsible only to the ' President on UFOs in the late 1940: and early 1950:. UFOlogists had long argued that, Following a flying saucer crash in New Mexico in 1947, the government not only recovered debrisfi-om the crashed saucer but also Your or live alien bodies. Accord- ing to some UFOlogists, the government clamped tight security around the project and has tefirsed to divulge its investigation results and research ever since." In September 1994, the US Air Force released a _ new report on the Roswell incident that concluded that the debris found in New Mexico in 1947 probably came from a once top secret balloon ‘ operation, Project MOGUL, designed to monitor the atmosphere For evidence of Soviet nuclear tests. 92 Circa I984, a series of documents surfaced which some UFOlogists said proved that President Truman ere- ated a top secret committee in 1947, Majestic-I2, to secure the recovery of ' UFO wreckage from Roswell and any other UFO crash sight for scien- tific study and to examine any alien bodies recovered from such sites. Most if not all oi these documents have proved to be Fabrications. Yet the controversy persists.” Like the JFK assassination co nspiracy theories. the UFQ issue probably will not go awaysoon. no matter what the Agency does or says. The belief that we are not alone in the universe is too emotionally appealing and the distrust of our government is too pervasive to make the issue ame- nable to traditional scientific studies _of;a_t_i_onal explanation and evidence. 2 » are Like the JFK assassination conspiracy theories, the UFO issue probably will not go away soon, no matter what the Agency does or says. ‘.99 NOTES 1. See the 1973 Gallup Poll results printed in Tb: New York Timer. Z9 November i973, p. 45 and Philip j. Klass, UFOs: T/re Public Deteiued (New York: Prometheus Books, 1983). p. 3. 2. See Klass. UFOs, p. 3: lame: S. Gor- don, “The UFO Experience,“ /irémric [dent/vb (August 199i), pp. 82-92; David Michael jaoobs. T/1e UFO Com n-oven) in America (Bloomington: - Indiana University Press, 1975); Howard Blum. Our Here: Tb: Gou- rmmazri Secret Quarflr Ertrarerrazrialr (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990); Timothy Good. Above Tap Secret: The lVarldwxl/1: UFQ Cover-Qp (New York: William Morrow, 1987): and Whitley Striebet, Communion: T/1: Tm: Srary (New York: Morrow, I987). 3. in September 1993 john Peterson. an acquaintance of Woolsefs, first approached the DC! with a package of heavily sanitized Clix material on UFO: released to llFOlogist Stanton. T. Friedman. Peterson and Friedman wanted to know the reasons for the tedactions. ‘X/oolsey agreed to look into the matter. See Richard J. War- shaw, Executive Assistant, note to author. 1 November i994: \X/arshaw. note to john H. Wright, Information and Privacy Coordinator, 3l January 1994; and Wright. memorandum to Executive Secretariat. 2 March 1994. (Except where noted. all citations to CIA records in this article ate to the records collected For the I994 Agency- 9 wide search that are held by the Execu Uf-‘Os See Hector Quintanilla, In. “The Investigation of UFOs." Vol. IO, No. 4, Studies in lnrelligmcc (Fall 1966): pp.95-l 10 and CIA. unsigned memo- randum. “Flying Saucers.“ 14 August 1952. See also Good, Above Tap Secret, p. 253. During World Wu ii, US pilots reported “Foo lighters“ (bright lights trailing US aircraft). Fearing they might be Iapanese or German secret weapons. O55 investi- gated but could find no concrete evidence of enemy weapons and ofien r filed such reports in the "ctacltpot" category. The 05$ also invstigated possible sightings of German V-l and V-Z tocltets before their operational use duringrhe war. See Jacobs, UFO Canrm/my, p. 33. The Central Intel- ligence Group, the predecessor of the Clix. also monitored reports ol"'ghost rockets" in Sweden in 1946. See CIG, intelligence Report. 9 April I947. _ Jacobs, The UFO Canmavmy, p. 156 and Quintanilla, "The investigation of UFOs,’ p. 97. i v See US Air Force, Air Material Corn- rnand. “Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project SIGN, no. F-TR 2274. Vt. February 1949, Records of the U5 Air Force Commands, Activities and Organiutions. Record Group 34 1, National Archives. Washington. DC. See US Air Force. Projem GRUDGE and BLUEBOOKR:portr 1- I2 (Wash- ington. DC; National investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. I963) and Jacobs. The UFO Contra- vmy, pp. $0-54. Sec Cabell. memorandum to Com- manding Generals Major Air Commands, "Reporting oi: informa- tion on Unconventional Aircraft," 8 September I950 and Jacobs, T/:e UFO Conrrwmy, p. 65. See Air Force, Project: GRUDGE 4nd BLUE BOOK and Jacobs. The UQQ it tive Assistant to the DCl).< _ ~~‘¢M_-tt.~ t=e-€ozr;ra.r/eragr. p. G7-< ' -» -' 79 5*“ 7 Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 l '-:"!‘Pa ..._. 0-. l
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 58 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.