CIA-RDP81R00560R000100080016-7.pdf

1 October 1957 5X1 | You have picked an interesting subject for research, and I wish you every success in carrying it out in a scholarly and objective manner. I spent a summer on the Air Force study of UFO's back at the height of the scare, and: learned a good deal about the subject at that time. In answer to the questions in your letter of 25 September: 1. I have no reason to doubt all of the reports of UFO's (although an appreciable fraction of them were proved to be fraudulent), but this is only to say that I accept the fact that people see objects in the sky and cannot identify them. A ver…

Approved i 2005/07/20 : aia ail meteorological balloon?). Calling all unidentified objects in the sky "flying saucers" or, even, UFO's (Venus doesn't "fly" in any proper sense of that work) is like calling any word I cannot understand "Greek." The class of all words I cannot understand would scarcely form a single language. Therefore, the explanation of UFO's as a class is simply that they are not a uniform class but a hodge-podge of widely disparate, partly described phenomena that were seen in the sky. 4. Covered in 3, above. 5, Further research in the conventional sciences of astronony, met…