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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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# Approved For Release 2004/03/26 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100040001-7 SECRET Security Information In this case it must certainly be reported if found on patrol plates. It seems often where an astronomer refused to interrupt his departure in order to photograph an alleged sighting in a different part of the city. This led to say that, if a program of watching could be an adjunct of planned astronomical programs, little more would be involved and that the trained astronomical personnel might photograph a sighting of an unidentified object. a. Harvard University, Cambridge and New Mexico (meteor patrol) WIYSPILS. o. Korkee Observatory, University of Chicago and Fort Davis, To (coveral programs) Meinel (aureae), Kuiper (asteroids), Morgan (wide angle camera). The location of some of these programs and their directors are believed to be: 3. University of Alaska, Fairbanks (durorae) Elvey 1. Dominion Observatory, Ottawa (matcors) - Millwan Paloan Observatory. California (sky map) = Minkowski 4. Wish Observatory, California (sky map) ⇄ Shonto SECRET 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. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.