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This 1997 study by Gerald K. Haines, National Reconnaissance Office historian, traces CIA interest in UFOs from the late 1940s to 1990 using Agency records compiled after DCI R. James Woolsey ordered a 1993 file review. It covers Air Force projects SIGN, GRUDGE and BLUE BOOK, the 1953 Robertson panel, U-2 and OXCART flights mistaken for UFOs, and disputes with Keyhoe and Davidson. It concludes that Agency concern was substantial until the early 1950s and limited and peripheral since.
UFOs 75. Condon isquoted inWalterSullivan, 3AidesSelected inSaucerInquiry, TheNew York Times, 8October 1966. See also AnOutspokenScien tist,EdwardUhlerCondon, The New YorkTimes, 8October 1966. Condon, anoutgoing, gruffscientist, hadearlierbecomeembroiled in a con troversywith theHouseUnamerican ActivitiesCommittee thatclaimed Condon was one of theweakest links in ouratomicsecurity. See also Pee bles,WatchtheSkies,pp.169-195. 76. SeeLundahl,memorandum forDDI, 7February 1967. 77. Seememorandum for therecord, Visit of Dr.Condon toNPIC, 20 February1967, 23February 1967. See also theanalysis of thephoto graphs inmemorandum forLundahi, PhotoAnalysis ofUFOPhotogra phy, 17February 1967. 78. Seememorandum for therecord, UFOBriefing for Dr.EdwardCon- don, 5 May1967, 8 May 1967 and attached Guidelines to UFOPhotog raphers andUFOPhotographic InformationSheet. See alsoCondon Committee, PressRelease, 1 May 1967 andKlass, UFOs, p. 41. The Zanevillephotographsturned out to be ahoax. 79. SeeEdward U.Condon,Scientific Study ofUnidentifiedFlyingObjects (NewYork:BantamBooks, 1969) andKlass, UFOs, p. 41. Thereport contained theDurantreport with onlyminordeletions. 80. SeeOffice ofAssistantSecretary of Defense,NewsRelease, AirForce to TerminateProjectBLUEBOOK, 17 December 1969. The AirForce retiredBLUEBOOKrecords to the USAFArchives atMaxwell AirForce Base inAlabama. in 1976 the Air Forceturned over allBLUEBOOK files to theNationalArchives and RecordsAdministration,whichmade themavailable to thepublicwithout majorrestrictions. Somenames have beenwithheld from thedocuments. SeeKiass, UFOs, p. 6. 81. GSW was asmallgroup ofUFO buffs based inPhoenix,Arizona, and headed byWilliam H.Spaulding. 82. SeeKlass, UFOs, p. 8. 83. SeeWilson, letter toSpaulding, 26 March 1976 andGSWv. CIACivil Action Case78-859. 84. GSW v. CIA CivilAction Case 78- 859, p. 2. 85. AuthorinterviewwithLaunieZiebell, 23June 1994 andauthorinterview with OSIanalyst, 21 July 1994. See alsoaffidavits ofGeorgeOwens, CIA Information andPrivacyActCoordi nator; Karl H.Weber, OSI;Sidney D. Stembridge,Office ofSecurity; and Rutledge P.Hazzard,DS&T; GSW CIACivilAction Case78-859 and SayreStevens,DeputyDirector for NationalForeignAssessment,memo randum forThomas H.White, Assistant forInformation,Informa tionReviewCommittee, FOIA LitigationGroundSaucerWatch, no date. 86. See CIAPapersDetailUFOSurveil lance, TheNew York Times, 13 January 1979;PatrickHuyghe, UFO Files: TheUntoldStory, TheNew York TimesMagazine, 14October 1979, p. 106; andJeromeClark, UFOUpdate, UFOReport,August 1979. 87. JeromeClark, LatestUFONews Briefs FromAround theWorld, UFOUpdate,August 1979 andGSW v. CIACivilAction No.78-859. 88. SeeWortman,memorandum for DCI Turner, YourQuestion, Are we in UFOs? Annotated to TheNew York TimesNewsReleaseArticle, 18Janu ary 1979. 89. SeeGSW v. CIACivilAction 78- 859. See alsoKlass, UFOs, pp. 10-12. 90. (5) SeeJohnBrennan,memorandum forRichardWarshaw,ExecutiveAssis tant, DCI, RequestedInformation onUFOs, 30September 1993; Authorinterviews withOSWR ana lyst, 14June 1994 and OSIanalyst, 21 July 1994. Thisauthorfound almost nodocumentation onAgency involvement withUFOs in the 1980s. There is a DIAPsychicCenter and the NSAstudiesparapsychology, that branch ofpsychology thatdeals with theinvestigation ofsuchpsychic phe nomena asclairvoyance,extrasensory perception, andtelepathy. The CIA reportedly is also amember of an Inci dentResponseTeam toinvestigate UFOlandings, ifoneshouldoccur. This team has never met. The lack of solid CIAdocumentation onAgency UFO-relatedactivities in the 1980s leaves theentire issuesomewhat murky for thisperiod. Much of theUFOliteraturepresently focuses oncontactees andabductees. SeeJohn E.Mack,Abduction,Human Encounters withAliens(NewYork: CharlesScribner sSons, 1994) and HowardBlum, Out There(NewYork: Simon andSchuster, 1990). 91. SeeCharlesBerlitz andWilliam L. Moore, TheRoswellIncident(New York: BerkeleyBooks, 1988);Moore, TheRoswellIncident: NewEvidence in theSearch for aCrashedUFO, (Burbank,California: FairWitness Project, 1982),PublicationNumber 1201; andKiass, UFOs, pp.280-28 1. In 1994CongressmanSteven H. Schiff(R-NM) called for anofficial study of theRoswellincident. The GAO isconducting aseparateinvesti gation of theincident. The CIA is notinvolved in theinvestigation. See Kiass, UFOs, pp.279-28 1; John H. Wright,Information andPrivacy Coordinator, letter to DerekSkreen, 20September 1993; andOSWR ana lystInterview. See also themade-for- TV film,Roswell,whichappeared on cable TV ott 31 July 1994 and Pee bles, Watch theSkies, pp.245-251. 83
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