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FOIA Litigation- Ground Saucer Watch, Inc. V. CIA

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-04-09 · 16 pages · text by OCR

This CIA FOIA release, dated 2001-04-09, collects 1978 internal records from the case Ground Saucer Watch, Inc. v. CIA (Civil Action 78-859). It includes an Office of General Counsel memo, a stipulation from plaintiff's attorney Peter Gersten that restates the group's requests for all CIA documents relating to UFOs, a list of the original requesters, and routing slips. Office of Data Processing components searched their files and reported that they found no material related to UFOs.

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“UFO Files”5 pages

p. 1 …The Office of Data Processing (ODP) has conducted a reasonable search of its files responsive to…
p. 3 …File Search for Documents Pertaining to UFO's or UFO Phenomenon 1. This is to advise…
p. 10 …and historical files on early OTS predecessor's research and develop work on UFO intelligence collection…
p. 11 …historical and current files of covert action projects directed at domestic and foreign UFO researchers and…
p. 15 …We have located nothing in our files regarding UFO's or Ground Saucer~Watch. We did…

FORM NO. 241 REPLACES FORM 36-8 1 FEB 55 WHICH MAY BE USED.

Cases discussed

Loring AFB Incursions and the 1975 Northern Tier Overflights 1975
the 1975 sighting of UFOs over SAC bases
The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident (Dogfight over Tehran) 1976
the September, 1976 Iranian sighting
The Moroccan UFO and King Hassan II's Request to the United States 1976
the September, 1976 Moroccan sighting

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.