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This is Air Force Regulation 200-2 on unidentified flying objects, released through the Central Intelligence Agency, with a CIA release stamp dated 2004. It supersedes the 12 August 1954 version and sets out how the Air Force reports and investigates UFO sightings and how it releases information about them to the public. The regulation defines what counts as a UFO. It assigns analysis to the Air Technical Intelligence Center, puts the Office of Information Services in charge of public releases and gives a standard report format, including rules for handling photographs and physical evidence.
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AIR FORCE REGULATION NO.200-2 # INTELLIGENCE # Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) SECTION A—GENERAL Paragraph Background Information 1 Definitions 2 Objectives 3 Responsibilities 4 Guidance 5 Zone of Interior Collection 6 Maintaining Public Relations 7 Releasing Information 8 Exceptions 9 Release by Non-Air Force Sources 10 Contacts 11 ## SECTION C—PREPARING AND SUBMITTING REPORTS General Information 12 Methods for Transmitting Reports 13 Where to Submit Reports 14 Basic Reporting Data and Format 15 Negative or Inapplicable Data 16 Comments of Preparing Officer 17 Classification 18 Reporting Physical Evidence 19 This regulation establishes the responsibility and procedure for reporting information and evidence on unidentified flying objects (UFO) and for releasing pertinent information to the general public. ## SECTION A—GENERAL 1. Background Information. The Air Force investigation and analysis of UFO's over the United States are directly related to its responsibility for the defense of the United States. Prompt reporting and rapid identification are necessary to carry out the second of the four phases of air defense-detection, identification, interception, and destruction; therefore, the Air Force maintains the Unidentified Flying Object Program. To implement this program successfully requires strict compliance with this regulation by all commanders. 2. Definitions. To insure proper and uniform usage in UFO screenings, investigations, and reportings, the objects are defined as follows: a. Familiar or Known Objects-Aircraft, birds, balloons, kites, searchlights, and astronomical bodies (meteors, planets, stars). b. Unknown Aircraft: (1) Flying objects determined to be aircraft. These generally appear as a result of ADIZ violations and often prompt the UFO reports submitted by the general public. They are readily identifiable as, or known to be, aircraft, but their type, purpose, origin, and destination are unknown. Air Defense Command is responsible for reports of "unknown" aircraft and they should not be reported as UFO's under this regulation. (2) Aircraft flares, jet exhausts, condensation trails, blinking or steady lights observed at night, lights circling or near airports and airways, and other similar phenomena resulting from, or indications of aircraft. These should not be reported under this regulation as they do not fall within the definition of a UFO. (3) Pilotless aircraft and missiles. c. Unidentified Flying Objects—Any airborne object which, by performance, aerody 954. *This regulation supersedes AFR 200-2, 12 August 1954. *USAF Declass/Release Instructions On File*
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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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.