Documents / FOIA release
This draft monograph from the National Security Agency, classified SECRET and undated, looks at what the main hypotheses about UFOs would mean for human survival. It argues that UFOs are unlikely to be all hoaxes or all hallucinations. It warns that natural phenomena could trigger false missile attack reports and that secret earth projects or extraterrestrial intelligence could pose threats. It urges an urgent survival-minded investigation rather than a leisurely scientific approach.
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Observations of chimpanzees while in a captive environment have shown that the animals tend to become confused and disoriented. Since they do not usually have adult chimps to teach them how to be good apes, they are not even sure of their behavior. Often their actions are patterned after human behavior and would have virtually no survival value in the wild. Lacking the challenge of environmental adaptation, the bodies of the animals atrophy and become subject to many diseases - mostly unknown in their wild counterparts. Reactions to stimulus usually become less responsive and suitable. Sex often becomes a year-long preoccupation instead of a seasonal madness. Do the captivity characteristics of modern civilization cause a similar lessening of man's adaptive capability, of his health, of his ability to recognize reality, of his ability to survive? Perhaps the UFO question might even make man undertake studies which could enable him to construct a society which is most conducive to developing a completely human being, healthy in all aspects of mind and body - and most important able to recognize and adapt to real environmental situations. # DRAFT (7)
FOIA release, 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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.