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This Central Intelligence Agency briefing text on flying saucers, released in 2001, gives the Office of Scientific Intelligence's survey of the Air Force study after General Samford's July 29 press conference. It traces reports from Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting through Mantell, Gorman and White Sands, and describes ATIC's classes of sightings and figures on unexplained cases. It weighs four theories and finds no evidence for Russian or interplanetary origins. A draft National Security Council directive tasking the DCI with UFO research is attached.
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# Approved For Rel 0R000100020013-6 and many others are reported to be convinced of this theory. The fourth major theory is that, now held by the Air Force, that the sightings, given adequate data, can be explained on the basis either of: of: Misinterpretation of known objects, or of as yet little understood natural phenomena. So much for the history of the problem. will now pick up with an analysis of the Air Force study. 25X1A
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. 11 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.