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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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100060002-4 6. Attached hereto is a draft memorandum to the NSC and a simple draft NSC Directive establishing this matter as a priority project throughout the intelligence and the defense research and development community. 25X1A H. MARSHALL CHADWELL Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence Attachments: Draft memo to NSC with draft Directive Distribution: Orig. & 1 - forward 1 - DD/I 2 - AD/SI
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.