Documents / FOIA release
This CIA document, approved for release on 2 April 2001, contains a memorandum from Director Walter B. Smith to the Director of the Psychological Strategy Board, along with a staff study by the Office of Scientific Intelligence on flying saucers. The study treats unidentified flying objects as a national security problem that matters for operations, intelligence and psychological warfare. It criticizes the small Air Force project at ATIC under Captain E. J. Ruppelt and recommends a centrally administered research program.
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Approved For Release 2001/04/02: CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020017-2 this central effort at ATIC is maintained on a minimal basis while there is concurrently ordered a world-wide reporting system and an interception program which may expend hundreds of man hours and thousands of dollars. The methods used by Air Force are now in the process of change but the conclusions and explanations given to the public are based on the process I am going to describe. Research and analysis at this time is limited almost exclusively to the case history method. Reports, which are limited in their coverage to ten broad elements of information, are received from the field, mainly through the Air-intelligence reporting system, though also to a limited extent from the other services and from the Department of State. These reports come to the Unidentified Objects Section where each one are examined separately to determine whether it is explainable as "misinterpretations of a known object", or whether it must be classed as "unexplained." and subject to further investigation. In this sorting process, the reports are first examined in the light of established and readily available fact such as known balloon tracks or aircraft flights. The report may then be referred to an Air Force Base or to the Office Approved For Release 2001/04/02: CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020017-2
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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. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.