Documents / FOIA release
This is a CIA memorandum to the Director of Central Intelligence from the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, with a routing slip dated 11/1/55. It was approved for release on 2001/04/02. The memo comments on a sanitized report of an unconventional aircraft sighting. It says the few details given do not allow the object to be identified but suggest it was not a flying saucer, and that it may have been a vertical take-off aircraft or a rail-launched missile. It also describes a 1954 Air Force advisory committee that recommended against supporting a flying saucer project.
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TO INITIALS DATE 1 DR. SCOVILLE 145 Barton Hall 2 3 4 5 FROM INITIALS DATE 1 0/DCI Jacob 11/1/55 2 3 APPROVAL INFORMATION ACTION SIGNATURE DIRECT REPLY COMMENT RETURN PREPARATION OF REPLY CONCURRENCE DISPATCH RECOMMENDATION FILE ## Remarks: UNCLASSIFIED Previous editions may be used.
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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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.