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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 26 January 1965 and released in 2002, was sent by Donald F. Chamberlain, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence. It reviews recent publicized reports, including the 1963 Sunnyvale incident, the 1964 Gemini launch and the December 1964 Patuxent radar case. It finds no evidence that UFOs are foreign or a security threat and concurs with Air Force conclusions. Attached Air Force statistics cover 1954 to 1964.
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DD/S&T 370/65 26 JAN 1965 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence SUBJECT: Evaluation of UFO's 1. This memorandum is for your information in response to your request. 2. As you know, there has been a recent spate of reports of UFO's (unidentified flying objects) in news media. Widely publicized UFO reports during the past 18 months include: the July 1963 Sunnyvale, California, incident in which the UFO was later identified as an aircraft; the UFO's reportedly associated with the Gemini launching in April 1964 which probably were due to fragments causing radar reflection; and the Patuxent, Maryland, incident in December 1964, in which two objects were apparently tracked by radar, but later analysis attributed the sighting to malfunctioning radar circuitry. Evaluation of these and other reported phenomena reveals no evidence that UFO's are of foreign origin or are a threat to the security of the United States. 3. The Office of Scientific Intelligence/DD S&T monitors reports of UFO's, including the official Air Force investigation reports, and concurs with the Air Force conclusions, which are unclassified and available to scientific investigators. Of some 521 UFO reports investigated during 1964, only 3% are classed as unidentified; 11 investigations are still pending. Attached are the official Air Force statistics for the time period 1954-1963 by year and for 1964 by month. DONALD F. CHAMBERLAIN Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence CONCURRENCE: Deputy Director (Science and Technology) Distribution: Date Orig & 1 - Addressee Approved For Release 2002/10/29 : CIA-RDP68R00530A000200040003-9 OSI/IPS
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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.