Documents / FOIA release
This CIA release, approved in 2001, collects 1952 memoranda on unidentified flying objects from the Office of Scientific Intelligence. A July memo says a special study group was formed after recent radar and visual sightings. A later memo from H. Marshall Chadwell says sightings of high-altitude, high-speed objects near major U.S. defense installations could not be attributed to natural phenomena. It proposes a consulting group and attaches a draft memo to the NSC, signed by Walter B. Smith, and a draft NSC directive for a DCI research program.
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JUL 29 1952 MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director/Intelligence SUBJECT: Recent Sightings of Unexplained Objects In the past several weeks a number of radar and visual sightings of unidentified aerial objects have been reported. Although this office has maintained a continuing review of such reputed sightings during the past three years, a special study group has been formed to review this subject to date. 0/0I will participate in this study with 0/0I and a report should be ready about 15 August. 25X1A Acting Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence OSI:FCD:RLC/ntw (28July52) Opns/SI - 3 AD/SI - 2
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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.