Documents / Official release
This is a CSETI Project Starlight comprehensive briefing document, prepared by Steven M. Greer, M.D., director of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and dated April 1997. It contains CSETI position papers arguing that the US government secretly holds extraterrestrial craft and that covert management of the subject threatens national security, along with letters to President Clinton seeking disclosure. It also includes government records, among them an FAA Charlotte Tower re-recording of a December 1977 police helicopter sighting.
“Cooper”19 pages
III. US Government Documents Related to UFOs Table of Contents CIA Letter to CSETI regarding documents requested under FOIA. 1. To: The Controller of Telecommunications From: Wilber B. Smith, Senior Radio Engineer - Department of Transportation Date: November 21, 1950 Re: Top Secret Memorandum on geomagnetic research project, including the information obtained through the Canadian Embassy that UFO subject is classified in US higher than the H bomb and the US assessment that "flying saucers exist". 2. To: William Steinman From: Dr. Robert Sarbacher, Washington Institute of Technology Date: November 29, 1983 Re: Identifies 3 other scientists involved in crashed saucer study; confirms recovery of material, instruments and occupants from the crashed discs. 3. To: Commanding Officer, AF Cambridge Research Laboratory From: Wilbur L. Mitchell, Mathematician, Data Reduction Unit Date: July 13, 1950 Re: Objects over Holloman AFB - altitude of approximately 150,000 feet, 30 feet in diameter, traveling at undeterminable high speed. 4. To: Commanding General, Army Air Forces, Attn: Brig. General George Schulgen From: N.F. Twining, Lieutenant General USA Commanding Air Materiel Command - Headquarters Date: September 23, 1947 Re: Detailed Assessment from Air Materiel Command including opinion that: "The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious." 5. To: Executive Secretary, National Security Council From: Walter Smith, CIA Director Date: unknown Re: Urging wider study of UFOs especially related to United States Cold War security 6. To: Ambassador Griffith, Mission of Grenada to the United Nations From: L. Gordon Cooper, Col. USAF, Astronaut Date: November 9, 1978 Re: Cooper's assessment that UFOs are real and of extraterrestrial origin and that other astronauts have had sightings.
Not linked to a story yet.
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 345 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.