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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: GIAFRDP81R00560H00100040001-7 FOR GIA INTERNA MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD: SUBJECT: Air Force Request to Declassify CIA UFO Report REFERENCE: Memo for Chief, DSD/OSI, dated 20 July 66 1. Miss Sara Hunt of Air Force Office of Information phoned on 10 August to determine the status of our response to their request. 2. Upon instructions from Dr. Walter Mackey I told her that the declassified report was being retyped and would be forwarded soon. Miss Hunt's restraint was admirable. She pressed gently for a more specific response, which was not forthcoming. 3. Miss Hunt concluded by saying that Mr. John Leard, a newsman, had an article on UFO's in last week's Saturday Review. She stated that they wanted to show the new version to him as soon as it was declassified. ## D. B. STEVENSON Distribution: Orig & 1 - ACMB/DSD/OSI 2 - DSD/OSI OSI/DSD/ACMB:DBStevenson:sjm/7621 (11 Aug 66)
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.