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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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# Approved For Release 2002/10/29 : CIA-RDP68R00530A000200040003-9 (Compiled 1 Nov 64) TOTAL CASES BY CATEGORY 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 TOTAL Astronomical 137 135 222 341 231 144 235 203 135 85 1868 Aircraft 80 124 148 217 105 63 66 75 67 73 1018 Balloon 63 102 93 113 57 30 22 37 19 28 564 Insufficient Data 103 94 130 190 111 65 105 115 92 57 1062 Other 58 63 61 120 90 72 93 74 64 56 751 Satellite 0 0 0 8 18 0 21 69 77 81 274 Unidentified 46 25 15 16 11 13 14 12 15 13 180 Total 487 543 669 1005 623 387 556 585 469 393 5717 ASTRONOMICAL SIGHTINGS Meteors 92 79 88 179 168 100 187 119 94 57 1163 Stars & Planets 44 52 131 144 56 40 45 78 36 23 649 Other 1 4 3 18 7 4 3 6 5 5 56 Total 137 135 222 341 231 144 235 203 135 85 1868 OTHER CASES Hoaxes, Hallucinations, Unreliable Reports and Psychological Causes 6 17 17 37 28 13 12 17 11 15 173 Missiles and Rockets 1 1 3 2 6 14 12 12 9 13 73 Reflections 6 4 3 2 7 10 9 3 3 0 47 Flares & Fireworks 4 8 6 8 3 5 7 4 3 3 51 Mirages & Inversions 2 4 1 5 2 4 5 6 3 0 32 Search & Groundlights 6 14 9 12 8 5 6 1 3 2 66 Clouds & Contrails 3 2 1 9 5 2 4 5 4 5 40 Chaff 2 0 1 2 6 1 4 3 5 2 26 Birds 7 2 6 1 1 0 3 2 2 2 26 Radar Analysis 7 0 7 27 2 8 6 8 0 1 66 Photo Analysis 1 2 4 1 6 4 6 3 2 3 32 Physical Specimens 6 5 3 5 10 3 7 4 15 3 61 Satellite Decay 0 0 0 0 1 0 9 3 3 3 19 Other 7 4 0 9 5 3 3 3 1 4 39 Total 58 63 61 120 90 72 93 74 64 56 751
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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.