CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90

CIA (Gerald Haines) · 1997 · 18 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

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Cases discussed

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
Kenneth Arnold... sighted nine disk-shaped objects near Mt. Rainier, 24 June 1947
Roswell Incident 1947
Schiff called for an official study of the Roswell incident; GAO investigation
The Mariana UFO Film 1950
film near Great Falls, Montana, on 15 August 1950... two Air Force interceptors
The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
Tremonton film images caused by sunlight reflecting off seagulls
The Passaic UFO Photographs (George J. Stock) 1952
Amateur photograph caption: Passaic, New Jersey, 31 July 1952
The RAF Topcliffe "Perfect Flying Saucer" During Exercise Mainbrace 1952
during a recent air show RAF pilots and senior military officials had observed a perfect flying saucer
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
The Robertson Panel, 1952-53; panel met from 14 to 17 January 1953
Ralph Ditter's Zanesville Saucer Polaroids 1966
The Zanesville photographs turned out to be a hoax
The Condon Report and the NAS Review, 1966 to 1969 1966
Visit of Dr. Condon to NPIC; Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects
The Majestic 12 (MJ-12) Documents 1984
MJ-12 documents surfaced in 1984; one was a complete fraud

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