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This is Volume Three of the CIA Directorate of Science and Technology Historical Series on the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), 1949 to 1968, written by Karl H. Weber in June 1972 and approved for release in 2008. It holds three annexes, on OSI publications, OSI's external assistance and contracting program, and OSI's interaction with the National Security Agency. The released text covers production planning, review boards, current intelligence periodicals and future threat forecasting. It does not discuss UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations intelligence information report covers November 1972 to November 1973 and is based on a former Soviet citizen who served at the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR. It gives limited information on the range's facilities, security, a warhead checkout unit and the System-75 (SA-2) and System-300/Aldan (ABM-1 GALOSH) warheads, and passes on rumors of laser research. It also describes the source's late summer 1973 sighting of a silent green circular mass that formed concentric circles and faded within minutes.
This undated CIA memorandum for the Deputy Director for Administration, catalogued with an estimated date of 1973, reviews the agency's past drug research under the OFTEN and CHICKWIT projects run by its Office of Research and Development. It concludes that no drug programs remain undiscovered and that the planned agency-funded human testing of the chemical EA 3167 at Edgewood Arsenal never took place before the program ended in January 1973. It finds that only Edgewood could identify test subjects or evaluate the chemical's long-term effects.
This is a CIA-held foreign press translation record, dated 1 April 1973, of an article titled "Short Review of Radiation Energy" by Henry Moray, taken from the publication UFO-Nachrichten. The index entry was prepared by the Air Force Foreign Technology Division (report AIR/FTD-HC-23-29074), runs 8 pages, and is marked For Official Use Only. Copyright requests are referred to FTD. The record holds only catalog metadata and none of the article's content.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency catalog record for a translated article dated 30 April 1973 and titled "Wernher Von Braun Warns and Advanced Propulsion Concepts Project Outgrowth." According to the record, the article came from UFO Nachrichten and was translated under Air Force Foreign Technology Division reference FTD-HC-23-287-74. The record says the translation runs six pages, is marked For Official Use Only and carries copyright notes. The extracted text has only index fields and does not include the body of the article.
This Central Intelligence Agency catalog record describes a translated article titled "My First Contact with Friends from Space," dated 1 October 1973. The article appeared in the publication UFO-Nachrichter, and the record lists three pages. The translation was held under reference AIR/FTD-HC-23-288-74, and copyright questions were referred to FTD. It is marked For Official Use Only. The extracted text holds only index data and does not include the article itself, so its content cannot be summarized.
This Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Information Report, distributed in December 1973, relays information from a former Soviet citizen about the Sary Shagan weapons testing range in the USSR. It covers the range's facilities, security, headquarters and warhead checkout unit, along with warheads for the System-75 (SA-2) and System-300/Aldan (ABM-1 GALOSH) missiles and rumored laser research. It also reports that in late summer 1973 the source saw a silent bright green circular object at Site 7 that formed concentric circles and faded within minutes.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency letter from Lowe to Brad C. Sparks of Berkeley, California. It answers Sparks's letter of 21 October 1974. It encloses the minutes of the Intelligence Advisory Committee's 4 December 1952 meeting on unidentified flying objects, along with the 17 January 1953 "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" written by a panel of selected scientists. The letter says the panel found no sign that the phenomena posed a direct physical threat to national security, so no National Security Council Intelligence Directive was drafted.
This is a CIA letter dated 5 November 1974 from Bruce A. Lowe, Executive Secretary, to Mr. Sparks, answering his letter of 21 October 1974. It encloses the minutes of the Intelligence Advisory Committee's 4 December 1952 meeting on unidentified flying objects. It also encloses the 17 January 1953 "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" from a review by selected scientists. Because that panel found no sign of a direct physical threat to national security, no National Security Council Intelligence Directive was drafted.
This is a letter dated 24 December 1974 from CIA Director W. E. Colby to the President, with annexes attached. It responds to a New York Times article about CIA domestic intelligence activity. The letter denies that the Agency ran a "massive" domestic effort. It traces a counterintelligence program on foreign links with American dissidents, which ran from 1967 until it was ended in March 1974, and admits improper actions such as mail opening, break-ins and the surveillance of reporters. The attached memoranda restrict such activities.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 9 February 1978, was sent by the Chief of the Minneapolis Office to the Chief of the Domestic Collection Division. It reports that a source, whose name is redacted, saw an odd object coming down in the sky on 27 January 1978. The source thought it might relate to the Soviet satellite that fell in Canada on 24 January. The memo gives no description of the object and says the information would be passed to the Air Force.
This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 4 April 1975, is a short and heavily redacted report on UFO sightings, filed under a USSR heading. It records a conversation in which a source was asked whether a U.S. forecast center had ever dealt with UFO sightings. The source said the center had once been plagued with calls about sightings, some prompted by its scientific balloon flights. The source added, half jokingly, that the calls had stopped because someone must have made a political decision.
This Central Intelligence Agency compilation of translated Argentine press and radio items, dated 15 May 1975 on its title record, gathers news reports from May 1978. One EFE report from Salta says the object people saw falling near the Argentine-Bolivian border on 6 May was an artificial satellite. It fell on Taire Mountain in Bolivia, where authorities located it and the government declared an emergency zone. Other items cover nuclear plans, detainees, a YPF credit and telecommunications.
This Central Intelligence Agency personality (201) dossier on Sandelio Herminio Diaz Garcia holds material dated from November 1956 to August 1975 and was approved for release in 2025. It contains 1966 intelligence cables on a 29 May 1966 exile infiltration attempt near Havana, in which Diaz was reported killed while trying to assassinate Fidel Castro. It also includes a report on cancelled assassination plans, 1973 traces linking a Herminio Diaz to narcotics trafficking, and FBI file listings. The dossier contains no UFO material.
This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 29 September 1975, collects Office of Security memoranda written while the Senate Select Committee was investigating the Agency. Staff were told to alert former employees about possible committee contact over Project MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE, and the file answers committee questions about Hayes International and Bay of Pigs pilots. It also records staff interviews about CIA name checks at NSA and a Justice Department request for records on domestic electronic surveillance. It contains no material on UFOs.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency Operations Center watch log dated 28 October 1975. Most of its timed entries are blank. The entry at 0610 records that the NMCC representative told the Operations Center that a DDO Talker carried an update on the penetration of Loring AFB, Maine by one or more unidentified helicopters flying out of Canada. The Operations Center received a copy via LDX and disseminated it. The page was approved for release on 9 December 1977 and again in February 2010.
This Central Intelligence Agency information report, dated 15 November 1975, gives a source's account of a sighting from a slow train on 4 October 1955. Four travelers saw a triangular object with a light on each point take off from an air field about two miles from the tracks. It made several fast spirals and then climbed steeply at about 45 degrees while a searchlight followed it. The source described it as more like a missile ejection than an ordinary take-off, and said a steward pulled down the blinds.
This Central Intelligence Agency Domestic Collection Division report on the USSR is dated 10 November 1976 and marked as unevaluated information. It describes how Aeroflot deals with crew fatigue through physical conditioning, preflight medical testing and rest facilities called prophylactoriums at major airports. It also describes an automated prototype that tests pilots' psychomotor function in about three minutes. Radiation biologist Akoyev is reported as explaining that cosmic ray particles make Aeroflot pilots see flashes of light at night. The subject line also lists UFO phenomena.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 1976 and approved for release in 1978, reports on a DCD case about UFO research. After consulting the acting Deputy Director for Science and Technology, the office concluded that the government has no apparent program for identifying or solving UFO phenomena, though some Agency offices and personnel were monitoring them unofficially. It recommends developing reporting channels, especially on threat potential or foreign UFO-related research, and keeps the case open.
This is a confidential Central Intelligence Agency cable from April 1976, sent by a Domestic Collection Division field office to DCD headquarters under the subject "Case UFO Research." It refers to an earlier headquarters message and to a UFO study dated 9 April 1976. It says the source asked for the referenced material to be classified confidential and wanted guidance from CIA UFO experts on which parts of his report should stay classified. The cable was approved for release on 17 May 1978.
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 3 April 1976 and approved for release on 17 January 1978, answers a Form 610 of 9 April 1976 that forwarded a UFO study. The sender says analysts are trying to give analytical guidance on the material. It asks the recipient to send the source's full name and affiliation by TWX and to say whether the material was classified confidential at the source's request. Citing the information's unique quality, it asks for a reply as soon as possible.
This is a confidential Central Intelligence Agency cable dated 14 April 1976, sent from a Domestic Collection Division field office to DCD Headquarters under the subject "UFO Research." It cites an earlier headquarters message and a Form 610 dated 9 April 1976 about a UFO study. The cable says the source asked for his material to be classified Confidential. He also wants guidance from CIA UFO experts on which parts of his report should stay classified. The document was approved for release on 17 June 1978.
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 26 April 1976, is a heavily redacted reply to a request for analytical guidance on UFOs in a case involving private UFO research. It reports that an Agency science and technology official found no apparent government program to identify or solve the UFO phenomena. Some Agency offices and personnel were monitoring the subject, but not on an official basis. The official offered to evaluate further information, so the case was kept open.
This heavily redacted Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 5 May 1976, concerns UFO research and a request from the Office of Research and Development (ORD) for more information. It says ORD is interested in the work of someone whose name is removed, and that a qualified analyst is trying to evaluate a system that is also redacted. The cable notes that earlier correspondence mentioned a possible fuller description of the system and asks to be told of any new developments.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, heavily redacted and dated 25 June 1976, records a meeting with a representative of the Office of Research and Development (ORD) about that office's possible interest in a UFO case. Copies of a memo and the original were provided on request. The ORD contact thought there could be ongoing interest pending evaluation, asked for more information on the system, and asked that ORD's interest be kept low profile.
This is a Central Intelligence Agency routing and record sheet from the Domestic Collection Division (DCD), dated 27 May 1976. It is addressed to an unnamed doctor and refers to a recent discussion between the sender and that doctor. It says some material the doctor may find interesting is attached, and it points in particular to attachment A, which it says a source obtained. The attachments are not included in the text, and the sheet reaches no conclusions.
This Central Intelligence Agency routing and record sheet, dated June 3, 1976, carries a note to the Deputy Chief of OD&E about a shared personal interest in UFO phenomena. The writer says DCD had been receiving UFO related material from Agency S&T sources. It describes these sources as credible scientists, not the "nut" variety. The attached material is forwarded as having possible FI or community interest. The note suggests that one doctor's work be evaluated and offers further discussion, or else destruction of the material.
This Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 25 June 1976 and headed "UFO Research/ORD Request for Additional Information," has heavy deletions. It says the Office of Research and Development (ORD) has shown some interest in the work of an unnamed party and asks for more information. It notes that earlier correspondence mentioned a chance of getting a fuller description of a system, asks for whatever is available, and requests updates on any new developments.
This short, heavily redacted Central Intelligence Agency memorandum is dated 25 June 1976. It records a meeting that day with the Secretary of ORD about whether that office might be interested in a UFO case. The writer gave the Secretary copies of earlier memoranda, and the Secretary said ORD might have continuing interest once it had evaluated the material. The Secretary asked for more information on an unnamed system and wanted ORD's interest kept low profile until then. A TWX was sent requesting the information.
This Central Intelligence Agency routing slip, dated 14 July 1976, is addressed to the Deputy Chief of OD&E. The writer notes that the recipient mentioned a personal interest in UFO phenomena at a recent meeting. It adds that DCD had been receiving UFO material from Agency S&T sources doing related research. The slip forwards attached material thought to have possible FI or community interest, including work by a doctor whose name is redacted. It offers further discussion or says the material may be destroyed.
This heavily redacted Central Intelligence Agency cable, dated 5 August 1976 in the archive record, survives only in fragments. The legible text refers to a date of 23 September and a personal request to investigate a UFO sighted in Morocco. The rest of the message is withheld or unreadable, so the document names no findings, witnesses or conclusions. It carries a later stamp approving it for release.
This is a heavily redacted Central Intelligence Agency Domestic Collection Division Foreign Intelligence Information Report from the Directorate of Operations, dated October 4, 1976, on UFO phenomena. The surviving excerpt records a person being asked for a personal opinion of the UFO phenomenon. That person was told that 99 percent of such occurrences trace to natural or man-made causes such as celestial movement, aircraft or artificial satellites, while the remaining one percent cannot be explained and may be hallucination.
This Central Intelligence Agency Domestic Collection Division report, distributed 18 November 1976 and marked unevaluated, describes a light seen from British European Airways flight 831 from Moscow to London on 10 September 1976. Over Lithuania at about 33,000 feet, the crew saw a blinding, stationary, yellowish light below the aircraft that lit the clouds for 10 to 15 minutes. When the pilot asked Soviet authorities to identify it, they gave no identification and suggested he should not ask questions.
This Central Intelligence Agency Domestic Collection Division report, dated 18 November 1976 and marked as unevaluated information, describes a light seen during British European Airways flight 831 from Moscow to London on 10 September 1976. Over Lithuania at about 33,000 feet, the crew and passengers saw a blinding, stationary, yellowish light above a cloud layer for 10 to 15 minutes. When the pilot asked Soviet authorities what it was, they gave no identification and suggested he should not ask questions.
This Central Intelligence Agency biographical brief, dated 21 March 1977, profiles Soviet biologist Inal Akoyev, who has done military-related research on non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation standards since at least 1972. It traces his earlier work on the biological effects of radiation, space radiation studies, and a fungi experiment during the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project that U.S. scientists regarded as technically invalid. It notes his 1976 study of phosphenes seen by Aeroflot pilots, which it calls a possible cause of UFO claims, and his visits to the United States.
This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, dated 3 June 1977, was written by General Counsel Anthony A. Lapham to the Director of Research and Development, DDS&T. It forwards a letter from an acquaintance who proposed a comprehensive research project on the global UFO phenomenon, to be carried out by a multidisciplinary team at SRI. The project would review government policies, analyze UFO data, assess ways of collecting data and propose a national research plan. Lapham states that he strongly suspects the Agency has no interest.
This Central Intelligence Agency compilation, dated 5 August 1977, reproduces translated Soviet TASS news items from 22 September 1977 on national and scientific affairs. The central item reports that on 20 September residents of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, saw a huge star that moved over the city like a medusa, showered it with fine rays and then headed toward Lake Onega. The local observatory director called it an unexplained riddle. Other items cover the Prognoz-6 launch and a women's Il-62 flight record.
This Central Intelligence Agency compilation, dated 23 September 1977, reproduces TASS wire reports from 22 September 1977. The central item reports that residents of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, saw a huge star at about 0400 on 20 September. It spread over the city like a medusa, showered it with fine rays, and then moved toward Lake Onega, with the whole sighting lasting 10 to 12 minutes. Observatory director Yu. Gromov called the cause a riddle and said it was not a mirage. The pages also carry the Prognoz-6 launch and an IL-62 record flight.
This Central Intelligence Agency intelligence information report on the USSR is dated 2 November 1977 and was distributed in December 1977. It relays a source's account of an unidentified phenomenon seen at Site 7 one evening in late summer 1973. The source stepped outside during a televised Canada versus USSR sports competition and saw a bright green circular mass in the eastern sky. Concentric green circles formed around it before the color faded within minutes, with no sound, and the source offered no explanation.
This Central Intelligence Agency memo, dated 9 February 1978, went from the Chief of the Minneapolis Office to the Chief of the Domestic Collection Division. It passes on a caller's report that might relate to the Soviet satellite that fell in Canada on 24 January 1978. The caller said that on 27 January, while crossing a bridge on his way to work, he saw an odd object coming down in the sky. No description was obtained, and the office said it would pass the information to the Air Force.
This Central Intelligence Agency compilation of translated Argentine press and radio items from May 1978, approved for release in 1980, includes an EFE report from Salta. Official sources said an object seen falling near the Argentine-Bolivian border on 6 May, which caused an explosion that shook the earth, was an artificial satellite located on Taire Mountain in Bolivia, where the area was declared an emergency zone. Other items cover nuclear plans, arrests, a YPF credit and briefs.
This Central Intelligence Agency release is a compilation of foreign broadcast and press items from May 1978. It was approved for release in March 1980. Its main item is a 16 May 1978 Radio La Plata report from Sucre on conflicting accounts of an unidentified object that fell on a hill in Bolivia near the Argentine border. The accounts say Bolivian authorities asked NASA for help, the border was closed and the area was cordoned off. The report asks whether the object was a satellite, a meteorite or a false alarm.
This Central Intelligence Agency Office of General Counsel memorandum, OGC 78-2170, is dated 6 April 1978 and comes from Assistant General Counsel A. R. Cinquegrana. It sends Agency officers a computerized list, current as of early February 1978, of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries that extend how long relevant records must be kept. The alphabetical index links names, programs and topics to cases such as Halkin v. Helms and the Kennedy and King assassination probes. It lists Flying Saucers and UFOs under Ground Saucer Watch v. CIA.
This Central Intelligence Agency compilation of Latin American broadcast and press items, dated 17 May 1978, includes a Sucre Radio La Plata report of 16 May 1978 on conflicting accounts of an unidentified object said to have fallen on a hill in Bolivia near the Argentine border. Argentine and Uruguayan radio reported that Bolivian authorities had sought help from NASA. Reports also said the border was closed and 200 km around the site was cordoned off. The item asks whether the object was a satellite, a meteorite or a false alarm.
This is a December 1979 Central Intelligence Agency study published by the Directorate of Operations Counterintelligence Staff. It describes the Enemy Proselytizing Department (Cuc Dich Van) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of National Defense. The study traces the department's origins from 1941 through the French and Vietnam wars. It covers psychological warfare, fifth column penetration of ARVN and allied forces, the handling of US and allied prisoners of war, and the postwar reeducation of former ARVN personnel. It contains no material on UFOs.
This Central Intelligence Agency database record, dated September 1980, indexes a translated five-page article titled "UFO Phenomenon in China Analyzed." The article was written by Cha Leping and appeared in the Chinese journal Ziran Zazhi. The record says the translation was issued as JPRS report 77236 and is unclassified. The article text itself is not reproduced here. The entry refers readers to document 53 for the full text, so no findings or conclusions are given.