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This 1954 to 1955 file of U.S. Air Force Directorate of Intelligence correspondence gathers letters and memos about the Unidentified Flying Object Program. In one memo, the Air Force says an object that fell at Sylacauga, Alabama was identified as a meteorite at the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Donald Keyhoe questions the Office of Naval Research about the Navy's analysis of the Tremonton film, and the Navy says data are insufficient and it sees no danger. Most of the replies to the public enclose the Air Force UFO summary.
From the source:Release of 2026-07-10 Incident: 1955, Various. This file contains correspondence relating to Project Blue Book, a 1952-1969 U.S. Air Force program to investigate the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFO). The correspondence includes letters and memoranda sent between various departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, the Legislative Branch, and private citizens concerning UFO sightings and the research and findings of Project Blue Book.
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3321 W. Grenshaw Str. Chicago 24, I11. My dear, Mr. Sec. of the Air Force: I am addressing this letter to you because I have good reason to believe that you above all would know about such things. In the past five years I have become extremely interested in flying saucers and anything to do with them. I am in my last year of high school and have been wondering about what kind of a course in college that might prepare me for a future hope of investigating these objects. Although your department has said that there is no such thing as a U. F. O. and since there is no such thing as a U F O there is no need to investigate them I would like your honest opinion of what I should do about my fascination for these saucers and my hope of being fit to examine anything to do with them. Since many of the worlds most famous scientists are now working on these saucers and so many have voiced their opinion on them, I do not thing that I am out of place in writing to you about them. I would appreciate a reply from you personally. # Most respectfully yours, Howard Sockel P. S. If I am not too bold in telling you a little honest advice. I wish that your department would go back to the policy of slowly letting NW 91198 the public know about these saucers instead of hiding the evidence DocId:34745775 Page 25
Case file, from the pursue 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. 220 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.