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.
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A RESTRICTED Army letter that fOUlld lts way to Hoover's desk said that tbe bu- reau's services actually had Tiie first sighting to be la- been enlisted to relieve the Air beled a "Dying saucer" by the Forces "of the task of trac:lllll& press occurred on June :U, down all the many Instances 1147, when an Idaho busi.-. which turned out to be asbcan man Dying his plane near covers, toilet seats and what· Mount Rainier observed~ not." Incensed, Hoover moved disc-shaped objects ma quickly to discantlnue the bu- undulatlng motions " a reau•s U.F.o. investipUGas. saucer sklpptna over -ter." In September of that year, As early as World War II, the Commanding General of Allied bomber pilQlS had told the £I e ---'ved of "balls of light" that fol- Army ... r .,orce ·- a lowed their nights over Japan :~i: :=t.~J'=:. and Germany. A U.S. Eighth Twinlng,saylngthat''tbephe- Army Investigation coru:IUlied nomenon reported Is of - that they were the product ol thing real and not visionary or "mass hallucination." fictitious, .. that the objects ap. T'llele and other Incidents peared to be disc.shaped. "as were reported In a 1973 book by large as man-made aircraft." David Michael JACObs, "The and "concrolled either ma1111- UFO Controversy In Amer- ally, automatically or remoce- ica," which untll the recent re- Jy." At Twinlng's ~. i- of Govemmenc docu- project "Sip" wu 8llab-. ments wu the most compre- lished. ,, ·. 1-lve ,_.IJ'UCtion of the "Slpi"falledtofiDdanyeri- Government's U.F.O. Involve- dence that the objects were ment. . ' Sov" and ...... When Scandinavians re- · 1et secret weapons .,.... poned cigar-aha~ Objects in I ~c::. ~~:t~~ :! ':':!:11M6, U.S. Army mtelllaence i t" .. I lf"ed TOP SE- suspected that the RusslanS I ion, c ass • bad developed a secret -poll CRET. wblc:h Indicated that wlththehelpofGermanlcien-1 U.F.O.'s were of interplane- tistS from Peenemiinde. The tary origin. The ~te C.1.A., then known as the cen- : nentually reached Air Force tral lntellia- Grwp se- : Chief of Staff Gell. Hoyt S. bs l Vandenberg, who rejected It cretly began keeping &a on J for lack of proof. "Slpi's" In- the subjeet. . W1- the unkMwn objects . conclusive final report re- returned to the sides, this time : malned classified for tbe next over the United S&ates In the ! 12years. summer of 1947, the Army Air I After "Slpi," the Air Force Force set out to determine . continued to collect U.F.O. what the objec:IS were. Within : da&a under the code name -1cs. Brig. Gen. George F. i "Grudge... This Six-month ScbuJpn of Army Air Corps ' project found no evidence of Intelligence requested the : foreign IClentific development F.B.L's assistance "In local- ' and therefore DO direct threat ing and questioning the indl· . to national security. It did, vlduals who first sighted the · however, stress that the re- so-called O)'i11& discs.••. " Un- ' ported siptlngs could be dan- doubtedly swayed by Oaring ; gerous. "lbere are indications cold-war tensiOns, Schulpn ; that the planned release of re- · feared that "the first reported : lated psychological propa. sightings might have been by : ganda would cause a form of individuals of Communist · mass hysteria," tbe report sympathies with the view to 1 stated. "Employment of lhese causing hysteria and fear of a II methods by or apinst an secret Russian weapon." J. enemy would yield similar re- Jidaar Hoover •&reed to coop- 1 suits ••• aovemmental agen- erate but insisted that the bu- : cies interested In psycholoei- reau have "full access to discs I cal -rrare should be in- recovered." formed of the results of this The Air Force's behind-the- l study." scenes Interest contrasted ; A press release following the sharply wilh Its public stance I termination of "Grudge" al. that the objeccs were products lowed the public to believe that of misldentlficatlons and an the Air Force was no longer in- Imaginative populace. A se- terested in U.F.O.'s. But tbe curity lid was imposed on the Air Force continued to collect subject in July 1947. hiding a repons throu&h normal intelll- potentially "embarrassing gence channels until e dra- situatlon" the following Imatic sighting of a U.F.O. at month, when both the Air the Army Signal Corps radar Force and the F.B.1. began 1 center in Fort Monmouth suspecting they might actu- l N.J., in 1951 led to the rea~ ; '·-~ . ·"· ~~ ·;.....·~ · .. ·. '. .. .... ·~ 1 :. •
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.