Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file, approved for release in 2001, collects 1956 correspondence about who handles reports of unidentified flying objects. It includes a proposal for dividing up raw UFO reports and destroying some of them. Deputy Director Robert Amory Jr. asked about a Paris Match article, and the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence replied that the Office keeps close liaison with the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center. The file also holds a clipping about the closure of the Shirley Bay saucer station.
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--a. there will be maintained in 1983 or incoming raw reports where, in our judgment, the subject matter may provide information bearing on foreign weapon' system research or development. Responsibility for Unidentified Flying Objects 1. All/No Memorandum for the Honors, 9 January 1946. "Office responsibilities for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles" 2. Special Report 51, Analysis of Imports of Unidentified Serial Objects (Project Brain Book) by AITC, dated 5 May 1935 1. In accordance with Section 2, this division has assumed responsibility within this bill for non-conventional types of Air Pollution. 2. This division proposes to handle this responsibility in the following manner: b. Those reports which all under a. above and also could conducibly provide information on foreign fundamental science developments, will be forwarded to fundamental science areas for review with a request for return so as for filling. c. Those reports which do not fit a. above and which could consequently provide information on foreign fundamental science developments will be forwarded to the fundamental science area for retention or destruction. d. Reports which fit under one of the above will be controyd. 8. A chronological file of all all correspondence and action taken in connection with the United States ... program will be maintained in AIP. 1. A file of financed intelligence reports published by members of the United States intelligence community on ... will be maintained in ADP. 70
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. 8 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.