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This is an in camera affidavit by Eugene F. Yeates, Chief of the National Security Agency's Office of Policy, sworn in October 1980 in the case Citizens Against Unidentified Flying Objects Secrecy v. NSA, Civil Action No. 80-1562. It says NSA located 239 documents and explains why it withheld 156 communications intelligence reports produced between 1958 and 1979. It also explains the deletions in two released staff papers. The affidavit concludes that disclosure would reveal intelligence sources and methods, so the records are exempt under FOIA.
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## TOP SECRET OMBRA c. Twelve NSA-originated COMINT reports target the communications links and systems of two documents, in summary format, report the communications. Two of the records are in message format and report the communications which relate that an unidentified flying object was sighted in the air by a unit. One report contains a summary of activity based upon communications in reaction to an unidentified flying object along the coast. Two documents report on communications transmitted between two stations and one who report visual observations of luminous spheres. One report is a summary of a transmission between two stations. Finally, four documents in this group of twelve were intercepted from other communications targets. One document is based on the intercepted transmission of a report reporting a bright light. The second record is based on the intercept of a transmission of an object to a station seeking a report on any shining phenomena or falling meteorites observed on specified dates. The third and fourth reports are a summaries of on-going debates on UFOs among NSA-originated COMINT based on intercepted communications transmitted on nets. d. Five of the NSA-originated COMINT reports d. Five of the NSA-originated COMINT reports target government net communications All five of these documents are based on intercepted communications units and reporting observations of luminous objects in the sky.
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Document, from the nsa collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 21 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.