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This CIA file, released on 2014-06-12, holds a Richmond News Leader editorial titled "Saucers Are Still Around." Citing The World newsmagazine, it says the Air Technical Intelligence Center in Dayton received 276 initially unidentified flying object reports between January and August. Most were explained, 20 percent were set aside for insufficient information, and ten stayed unidentified. The editorial also describes NICAP's view that saucers are real and says a House subcommittee plans hearings next spring.
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RICHEOND, VA. NEWS LEADER ## EVENTING.114,673 # Saucers Are Still Around This week's issue of The World, a new newsmagazine published in Washington, brings up to date a story that has been little in the news of late. What ever became of flying saucers? Interestingly, they are still around. "Between January and August of this year, the Air Technical Intelligence Center in Dayton received reports of 276 initially-unidentified flying objects over sovereign American airspace." About two-thirds of these were promptly accounted for in terms of balloons, aircraft, or optical illusions. Another 20 per cent (it seems a large proportion) were marked off the books on the grounds of "insufficient information." Three per cent (ten of the things) remain officially "unidentified." What were these ten mysterious objecta? The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, a sober and responsible group composed of scientists, professors, a former CIA director, and others, is convinced that these and other "saucers" are quite real. A majority of the group's board believes "that the unknown devices reported by reliable observers are intelligently controlled machines from outer space." A House sub-committee is to hold hearings next Spring on the whole subject. If the crackpots, religious nuts and publicity, seekers can be kept away, this should be a useful venture. The committee probably won't get the right answers, but it may raise the right questions.
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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. 1 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.