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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.
“The Unexplained Files”1 page
- p. 52 …Court's Showing Plot of Geographic Location of Unexplained Sightings in the United States during 1952…
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Cases discussed
- Foo Fighters of World War II 1944
Instances of "Foo Fighters" were cited... World War II - The Mariana UFO Film 1950
Great Falls, Montana (15 August 1950)... strongly suspected of being reflections of aircraft - The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Washington, D.C. area (19 July 1952) discussed in detail - The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
Tremonton, Utah, Sighting... Kodachrome motion picture films... strongly to suggest birds - Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept 1952
Haneda A.F.B., Japan (5 August 1952) discussed in detail - Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept 1952
Bellefontaine, Ohio (1 August 1952) among significant sightings discussed - The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs convened by OSI, CIA, Jan 14-18, 1953
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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.