Documents / FOIA release
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.
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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD: SUBJECT: Air Force Request to Declassify CIA UFO Report REFERENCE: 1. Memo to Ch/DSD dated 20 July 1966 2. Memo for Record dated 12 August 1966 1. Mrs. Sara Hunt of the Air Force Office of Information called the undersigned twice on 16 August and once on 18 August. 2. The first time she asked if our response had gotten out and I told her it had. She requested the phone number of the office responsible for issuing the reply and I gave her number. 3. The second time Mrs. Hunt called she wanted to know the extent of the deletions, if any. I told her that, at least, reference to CIA and names of CIA employees were removed, and that I had heard that some additional sanitizing probably was done in the processing of the reply. 4. The fourth call was to state that Air Force had received our response, and to ask for the return of their copy of the CIA report which had been forwarded to us with the request for declassification. STATINTL Distribution: Orig & 1 - ACMB/DSD/OSI 1 - DSD/OSI 1 - EO/OSI OSI/DSD/ACMB: :sjm/7621 (23 Aug 66) STATINTL
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.