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Air Force Request to Declassify CIA Material on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO)

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-04-30 · 53 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency release, approved in 2004, collects 1966 memoranda on Air Force requests to declassify the 1953 report of the scientific panel on unidentified flying objects that the Office of Scientific Intelligence convened. The memos trace the USAF requests of July 1966, the press interest behind them, and the 15 August forwarding of a sanitized version with CIA references removed. The attached panel comments found no threat to national security, judged the Tremonton film to probably show birds, and recommended a training and debunking program.

  • p. 13 …Instances of "Foo Fighters" were cited. These were unexplained phenomena sighted by aircraft pilots during World…
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Security Inforcement

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"single page photo" on the end of the film.

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obtained by photographing polyurethane "pillow" balloons released

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and recollection characterizing with consistent ethnologists and

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turbids. It was concluded that the 2 rules of such tests would prove-

sibly lend to creditable applications of value in an educational or

to limiting program. However, the Penal noted that the cost in comparison

many other effort required to follow up and explain every one of the

thousand or more reports received through chamolo each year (1,000 in

1990) could not be justified. It was felt that there will always be

of findings, for which complete data is lacking, that can only be

confinued with disproportionate effect and with a long time delay. 5.2

c. a21. The long delay in explaining a lighting trend to eliminate

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but as a major purpose the plenitude of popular feeling that convey

cooking, no matter how poor the data, must be explained in detail.

Action should be directed to the requirement among scientists that

our phenomenon, to be accepted, must be completely and convincingly

C. related. In other words, the burden of proof is on the offender.

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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. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.