Documents / FOIA release
This file, held in the National Security Agency's UFO releases, is a magazine article titled "U.F.O. Files: The Untold Story" by Patrick Huyghe, a freelance writer in New York. The article argues that declassified CIA, FBI, Air Force and other agency documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show extensive government concern about UFOs despite official denials. It covers the 1975 base overflights, projects Sign and Grudge, the Condon study, CIA interest in NICAP, and the Ground Saucer Watch lawsuit against the CIA.
j'. ( :; ~: ~-. , ·~.s~:~:··.. ····. ' :.. ~~ .;... ,·· I~:'!' .... .~- .. ·ti ';: !~;: ; I • A meUlllic-Ulte diu, reported co llan llonrecl over Sanco Ancl, Calif., in 1165, - llae Subject of U.F.O. FILES: THE UNTOLD STORY• : ••.• ...i .••.• Though officials have long denied that they take 'flying saucers' seriously, declassified documents now reveal I extensive Government ~ncem. ov~ the p~enomeno1!:. ·: . . '. , ... -~, - ·- l .)',., W PIA 1 w "'.'\:. ,·'· •. By Patrick Hanh• :; !~ . .. .~t:~ ... i: . J .·"··.~... •:;:~~~,-, ......, ... ~ .. -.--·-··-~:::s.i:.:. Sighting over Oregon: OM of Ille bal photCJSnrplliC records. The De'- Department message bears the classlfica. · lion CONFIDENTIAL. "Sub- ject: Suspicious Unknown Air Activity." Dated Nov. 11, 1975, It reads: "Since 28 Oct 75 numerous repons of suspicious objects have been received at the NORAD COC [North Ameri- can Air Defense Combat Potridr Huy1he is a freelwu:. writer in New Yolit. Operatiam Cmler]. Reliable mWtary per....a at 1.orilll AFB [Air Force Bue), Maine, Wunsmitb AFB, Michipn, Ma1mstrom AFB, (Moawla), Mmot AFB, [North Dakota), and Canadian Forces SCatkln, Falcanbrtdp. Ontario, Cana- da, ...,,. YiSuaUy sigbred - picious otijec:ls. "Objects at Loring and Wunsmlth were characterized to be bellcopten. MluUe sile personnel, security alert teams and Air Def-pe.- nel at Malmstram Mantaaa re- ported object wbich IWllded like a jet ain:rafL FAA ad- vised 'There were no jet air- craft In lbe vicinity.• Malm- stnnn -rcb and beiPt finder radars c:anied tbe object ... ,_ 9,0llD ft and 15,IOO ft at a speed of seven knots. • .. F·•'* scrambled from Malm- strom could not make contact due to darkness and low altl- . -: :.:~ . :; tude. Sile peDllllll8I reported the objeda •law u 2GO ft and said that as lbe interceptors approacbed the lights went out. After the IDCerceptors bad passed the HplS came OD apiD. One baur after the F-1111111 returned to bue, mis- sile site,._. reported tbe object increued to a hllb speed, raised In alUtude and could DDt be di-mcl from thesrars. ••• • 1.. '• '•. "J have a:pnaed my con- cern to SAFOJ [Air .Force m. formatiall · Olllce)' tJlat we - up -' with a pro- pelled - to queries frmi the p..-s to prevwat overreac- tion by the public IO reports by tbe media dial may be blown . out of pnpaniDD. To date ef. 1tons by AJr Guard belicllpten, SAC (Stratesic Air Command] Ihelicopters and NORAD F-1065 bave falJed to produce positive JD... ·.": .. ·',. ... ·f· ·. ....:..·: .,..,. ·.~;.· :~ ~·d!~' ' ·.·• ·.. :. .• .. . ... . '....• .... !' -·. . ·: .. ..• I
FOIA release, from the nsa collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 6 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.