Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency release, declassified and approved for release on 24 June 2013, is a collection of UFO photographs and pages from flying saucer books. It reproduces pictures including the Coniston saucer, the Trent photograph at McMinnville and a radar plot from Washington, D.C. Airport of 15 August 1952. The pages also discuss the Norwich sighting by F. W. Potter, the Bicknell sighting near Kilimanjaro, Maury Island and Farmington. The CIA adds no analysis of its own.
“Terry”1 page
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A Flying Saucer, taken by Juan Coll and Jose Antonio Baena near Malaga on 2nd November, 1954, reproduced in the Spanish evening paper Madrid. ## THE SAUCERS FLY AGAIN once again that the Norwich saucer could not have been a meteor, a balloon, a cobweb, ionised air, a soap bubble or any of the other conventionalisations which have been trotted out over the years. That is, if the evidence of the Potters is to be believed. What if their evidence is not to be believed? That their character is good, I can myself testify, for I have personally investigated the matter. Mr. Potter runs a window-cleaning business in the city and is well known locally. Nothing against his character is known, nor has it been assailed even by those who are most reluctant to believe in flying saucers. However, let us assume, for the moment, that the Potters fabricated their story. With what motive? As far as I can discover Mr. Potter has not made a penny out of his sighting. He may, for all I know, have lectured on his experience and I believe he has once or twice been invited to broadcast. The rewards must have been trifling. He has, I understand, received a number of letters abusing him, so the notoriety he has achieved has not all been pleasant. Besides, it was not until several months later that his story was taken up to any great extent. The evidence in favour of Mr. Potter is quite considerable. He refuses to call the object he saw a "flying saucer" and he and his wife now say somewhat petulantly, "We didn't want to see a flying saucer anyway!" I think it incontestable that the Potters believe that they saw what they claim to have seen. There is no evidence whatsoever of any ulterior motive. An alternative possibility has been suggested and should be considered carefully. In fact, two suggestions have been made. One is that because Mr. Potter's brother had, three weeks prior to the 7th October sighting, reported unidentified lights in the sky, the Potters would, therefore, be on the look-out for something and were, in fact, predisposed to see a something in the sky. The other suggestion is that as Adamski's photograph had appeared in the papers the week before the Norwich incident, the Potters had been induced to see a similar object. To the unthinking this may sound plausible, but do people really behave like this in real life? And why pick on the Potters? The Adamski photograph had, in all conscience, been widely
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. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.