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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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6. I have been informed by various sources that UROS were reported on the night of August 6-7, 1953, by one or more Navy pilots stationed at Barber's Point Naval Air Station, Hawaii. I should like to have any material available on this sighting. 5. On May 14, 1954, according to the Dallas Times and several radio commentators, Major Charles Scarborough, USMCR, reported sighting a group of 16 UFOs which he said they could describe only "as flying saucers." His quoted statement was reported by members of the Marine Corps jet flight which he was leading at the time. I should like to have any Navy material available in regard to this sighting, including the final conclusion. 4. An ABC chemist, or a chemist formerly with ABC, named Leon Davidson, has written me his conviction that the so-called "Flying Saucers" are secret Navy devices. He refers to alleged Navy secret annual reports and references to round aeroforms and artificial meteors, some of which he states were at least partly developed in 1942. Several times, I have discussed these suggestions not necessarily as from Davidson --- with Rear Admiral Calvin Boister, USN, (now retired), and Rear Adm. Delmar Fahrney, USN, Ret, both of whom are Naval Academy classmates of mine. Both convinced me that there was absolutely no foundation for the claims such as Davidson has made. In addition, I am sure such devices would have made present jets obsolete; we would have used them in Korea --- perhaps toward the end of World War 2 --- and certainly would not now be in any serious danger from any other nation's conventional aircraft or conventional missiles. (We would, however, have violated the boundaries of practically every nation on earth, in tests and practice operations, if this were the true answer, since the "flying saucers" have appeared practically everywhere on the globe.) For all these reasons, I am absolutely convinced that the UFOs are not a secret device of this country. But I should like a direct answer on this point, unless it is inconsistent with national security. (I realize that the armed services may now be experimenting with devices that could be mistaken for the Unidentified Flying Objects seen in our skies, or for the smaller ones, but I am sure there is no foundation for believing that secret American devices explain the sightings of the past 10 years Also, I should like to know whether this directive, in the same or similar form, was issued in other Naval Districts, and to our Navy 3. I should like to know whether the July 23d (1954) Potomat River Naval Command directive on URO reporting has been since revised, and if so I should like to have a copy of the revised directive. I understand, after a study of Air Force Regulation 200-2, August 12, 1954 that the PRNC directive was based on this Air Force Regulation, and that this Navy cooperation was at the request of the Defense Department. Is -Page 3, letter dated Dec. 2, 1954, to the Chief of the Office of Naval Research, attention of Lt. Cdr. Frank Thomas
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.