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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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complete absence of sound or vapor trail. Evasion upon approach is common.
Radars have shown many unidentified "blips" but there is no reported instance of complete tracking in and out of the maximum drum, and no report of a track from station to station. The blip, in almost every case, passed through the center of the scope.
In combined visual and radar sightings, I might mention as illustrations three specific reports.
First, a visual sighting from a plane over Sandy Hook coincident with a blip seen on a ground radar at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.
Second, a recent Far East report from an aircraft carrier operating between southern Korea and Honshu. Here ships radar reported a high speed target approaching from the north. Observers on the bridge picked it up visually as a plane. When still far out, it did a superspeed $ 1 8 0^{\circ} $ turn and shortly thereafter split in two, disappearing both visually and in the PPI scopes.
The third occurred a few days ago at Wright Field and has not yet been fully analyzed. Two F-94's with camera guns were vectored in on
Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA RDP81R00560R000100020013-6 Security information 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.