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This item, released by the Central Intelligence Agency with a 2004 release stamp, is a tabloid article from MIDNIGHT/GLOBE titled "Revealed: the CIA's Secret UFO File." It reports claims by Bill Spaulding of Ground Saucer Watch that the CIA, rather than the Air Force, is suppressing UFO evidence, and describes the group's Freedom of Information Act suit. It recounts an Iranian jet intercept of a UFO near Teheran and a NORAD directive on 1975 UFO overflights of Strategic Air Command bases.
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# Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-0131 CONSPIRACY by the CIA is denying Americans vital information about UFOs visiting earth, according to one of the world's most reputable UFO investigation organizations. "For years, everybody has blamed the Air Force for suppressing evidence," Bill Spaulding, head of the Ground Saucer Watch of Phoenix, AZ., told MIDNIGHT/ GLOBE. "We assumed they were the culprits. But the CIA is the major agency suppressing evidence. "It appears to us now that all intelligence agencies had something to do with this. We consider the Air Force to be merely the data collecting house. It appears when one goes through Project Bluebook, some of the better military cases are missing." Project Bluebook, discontinued in 1969, was the running account the Air Force kept on flying saucer reports for more than 20 years. If Spaulding and the GSW are correct, the missing pages are in the voluminous files of the CIA. They are suing the agency for release of its secret UFO files under the Freedom of Information Act. # The flying saucer that attacked a jet fighter One of the files the GSW hopes to get released is that of a mysterious case in Teheran, Iran, in 1975, which the U.S. Air Force investigated. A bright object was reported in the sky and subsequently spotted by two radar stations. Traffic controllers at Teheran Airport were worried. The craft had flashing blue and orange lights. Conventional aircraft throughout the globe are required to have only red, green or white lights. The Iranian air force sent up two jet fighters to intercept the mysterious craft. Both were armed with missiles. The first jet lost all communications 25 nautical miles away from the UFO. Its pilot could not contact the control tower or his companion. He returned to his base. Meanwhile, the other jet got within 22 miles of the object when it emitted a small projectile, cylindrical with no wings or markings. It flew directly at the jet on a collision course. Suppressed The pilot attempted to fire his heat-seeking missile. As he did so, he too lost control of his communications and weapons systems. He also had to dive out of the way. The object barely missed him, circled behind him, then returned to the UFO, which the pilot described as being about the size of a commercial jet aircraft. Still another object then appeared to leave the UFO and descend at a high rate of speed. To the crew of the Iranian fighter plane, it appeared to land gently on the earth and cast a bright light over an area of two to three kilometers. The fighter returned to its base, its instruments having been restored, and directed a helicopter to the area where the object was thought to have landed. Nothing was found. This suppressed report of the Iranian incident, made available to GSW through secret sources, is one on which its suit is based. Another is a directive of the North American Air Defense System (NORAD), which accumulated massive evidence that in 1975 UFOs violated the air space over every air base of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in the world, appearing visually and on radar. The bases attempted interceptions, only to witness the
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