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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 26 January 1965 and released in 2001, was sent by Donald F. Chamberlain, Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence. It reviews recent UFO reports, including incidents at Sunnyvale, California, the Gemini launch and Patuxent, Maryland, and finds no evidence that UFOs are of foreign origin or a threat to United States security. The Office of Scientific Intelligence concurs with the Air Force conclusions. Air Force statistics for 1954 to 1964 are attached.
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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100070002-3 STATISTICAL DATA FOR YEARS 1954 - 1963 (Compiled 1 Nov 64) TOTAL CASES BY CATEGORY Astronomical 1954137 1955135 1956222 1957341 1958231 1959144 1960235 1961203 1962135 196385 TOTAL1368 Aircraft 80 124 148 217 105 63 66 75 67 73 1018 Balloon 83 102 93 113 57 30 22 37 19 28 584 Insufficient Data 103 94 130 180 111 65 105 115 62 37 1082 Other 58 63 81 120 90 72 93 74 64 55 751 Satellite 0 0 6 8 18 0 21 69 77 61 274 Unidentified 46 25 15 16 11 13 14 12 15 13 160 Total 487 543 669 1005 623 387 556 585 469 363 5717 ASTRONOMICAL SIGHTINGS Meteors 62 79 88 179 164 100 187 119 94 57 1163 Stars & Planets 44 52 131 144 56 40 45 78 36 23 649 Other 1 4 3 18 7 4 3 6 5 5 56 Total 157 135 292 341 231 144 235 203 135 85 1856 OTHER CASES Honxee, Hallucinations, Unreliable Reports and Psychological Causes 6 17 17 37 28 13 12 17 11 15 173 Miniiles and Rockets 1 1 3 2 6 14 12 12 9 13 73 Reflections 6 4 3 2 7 10 9 3 5 0 47 Flares & Fireworks 4 8 6 4 5 5 7 4 3 2 51 Mireges & Inversions 2 4 1 5 2 4 5 6 3 0 32 Search & Groundlights 8 14 9 12 8 5 6 1 3 2 66 Clouds & Contrails 3 2 1 9 8 2 4 5 4 5 49 Chaff 3 0 1 2 6 1 4 3 5 2 26 Birds 7 2 6 1 1 0 3 2 2 2 26 Sedar Analysis 7 0 7 27 2 8 6 8 0 1 66 Photo Analysis 1 3 4 1 6 4 6 3 2 3 32 Physical Specimens 6 5 3 5 10 3 7 4 18 3 81 Satellite Locry 0 0 0 0 1 0 9 3 3 3 16 Other 7 4 0 6 5 3 3 3 1 4 39 Total 53 63 61 120 60 72 93 74 64 56 751
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.