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Flying Saucers
Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 11 pages · text by OCR
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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- p. 1 …Finally, on July 29, General Samford held a press conference in which he stated, that analysis…
- p. 3 …The public was somewhat preconditioned by the earlier Swedish reports of unidentified rockets and the press…
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Cases discussed
- The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946 1946
Swedish sightings of 1946... Swedish reports of unidentified rockets - The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Kenneth Arnold... nine discs flying in formation past Mount Rainier - Rhodes UFO photographs ("shoe-heel" photos), Phoenix, Arizona, 1947 1947
reports from a doctor in Phoenix, Arizona - United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho 1947
pilot and co-pilot of a United Air Liner at Boise, Idaho - Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings 1947
field staff members at Muroc Test Base, California - The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
Saucer furore in this country started in June 1947 - The Mantell UFO Incident 1948
interception attempted at Godman Field Kentucky... Captain Mantell crashed - The Gorman Dogfight 1948
Fargo, North Dakota -- Lt. Gorman... dog-fight with it - The Charles B. Moore Theodolite Sighting, Arrey, New Mexico 1949
April 1949 at White Sands... Navy Commander, tracking a missile flight by theodolite - Fort Monmouth radar and T-33 sightings 1951
visual sighting from a plane over Sandy Hook coincident with a blip at Fort Monmouth - The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
recent Washington sightings were possibly due to temperature inversions
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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. 11 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.