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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Assistant Director/Scientific Intelligence Flying Saucers ## STATINTL my attention was called to the 17 March 1956 in the French popular magazine, MARCH, which had an article particularly challenging "sighting" of a MDC (mysterieux objet in the form of a radar photograph confirmed by a visual pilot of a scheduled airline. Are we keeping in touch with the Air Force center on these Does it concern itself with foreign "sightings" such as the can also informed that in the coming year Mars will reach the closest point to the Earth in a long period. Outlandish as it may feel that OSI has the responsibility to keep its finger on the general subject if for no other purpose than to arm the front with the refutation of the more spectacular published reports. ROBERT AMORY, JR. Deputy Director/Intelligence
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.