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Flying Saucers Again: Do You Believe in Them?
Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 10 pages · text by OCR
This CIA file, approved for release on April 2, 2001, holds newspaper material on flying saucers. The main piece is an article by Charles Cooke, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who says he helped name Project Blue Book. In it he reviews books by Fuller, Edwards, NICAP and the Air Force, and he collects UFO reports from before 1947 that go back to 1838. A second article, by John Davy of the London Observer, reviews Sagan and Shklovskii's Intelligent Life in the Universe.
“Sagan”4 pages
- p. 7 …The American is Carl Sagan of Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The Russian is…
- p. 8 …So we must assume, say Sagan and Shklovskil, that some nucleic acids are formed "spontaneously."
Thus…
- p. 9 …But even the "cautious optimism" of Sagan and Shklovskil recognizes that there is only a slight…
- p. 10 …We may as Sagan and Shklovskii themselves recognize come to look back on their view of…
enlargement of the disc is shown above. Photos provided for publication by NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena).
Cases discussed
- Mystery Airship Wave of 1896 and 1897 1896
airship... first reported over Oakland, Cal., in November of 1896... over Chicago - The 1913 Great Meteor Procession (the Cyrillids) 1913
Readers Digest reported only on sightings in 1913 - The Nicholas Roerich Expedition Sighting, Kukunor District, 1927 1927
Nicholas Roerich... in Mongolia in 1927 he and his party saw... a huge oval - The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
June 24, 1947, the date of the famous "Arnold sighting"... Kenneth Arnold - The Exeter Incident 1965
September 3, 1965, sighting at Exeter, N. H., reported by... Norman Muscarello - Northeast Blackout UFO Sightings, Clay Substation and Syracuse (1965) 1965
UFOs... caused the Great Northeast Blackout a few months ago
About this file
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 10 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.