CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020013-6.pdf

- @ i a A ES 5.3 Approved For Rel@e 2001/04/0 de AIRDP81 RO0@HPR000100020013-6 1) August 1952 FLYING SAUCERS During the past weeks, with the phenomenal increase in the number | of Flying Saucer reports there has been a tremendous stimulation of both public and official interest in the subject. Requests for information have poured in on the Air Force, including an official query from the White House, Finally, on July 29, General Samford held a press conference in which he stated, that analysis showed "no pattern of anything remotely consistent with any menace to the United States;*® that recent…

Approved For Relg@e 2001/0410 2eecfeeeeROPST ROOGHPR000100020013-6 problem -- if any. In view of the wide interest within the Agency, this briefing has been arranged so that we could report on the survey. It must be mentioned that outside knowledge of Agency interest in Flying Saucers carries the risk of making the problem even more serious in the public mind than it already is, which we and Air Force agree must be avoided. In order to supply both breadth and depth to the survey we have reviewed our owm intelligence, going back to the Swedish sightings of 1916; reviewed a large number of indiv…

Approved For Rel@gge 2001/04/0 SESETRDPS1RO0MBNR000100020013-6 ion explained sightings and of possible theories regarding the unexplained. e We make no recommendations of action. We would ask that questions be held till the end. The Saucer furore in this country started in June 1947 when Kenneth Arnold, a reputable business man flying his ow plane reported nine discs flying in formation past Mount Rainier at an estimated speed of 1000 miles per hour. This was quickly followedin early July 197 by reports from a doctor in Phoenix, Arizona, the pilot and co-pilot of a United Air Liner at Boise, I…

moving light below him --~ also seen from the field — and for twenty Approved For Rel@e 2001/04/02 Ee : ae P81 ROO@HPRO00100020013-6 minutes put on a dog-fight with it, finally, being outdistanced at 17,000 feet. The third incident occurred in April 199 at White Sands Proving Ground when a Navy Commander, tracking a missile flight by theodolite, watched two discs maneuvering at high speed around the test rocket. Three such sightings were made at White Sands within a month. Meanwhile in 1948, Air Force initiated Project Saucer to study the phenomena, issued a preliminary report in 4pril 199 and…

Approved For Relg@pe 2001/04/Cgeaaas FRDPS81ROGGHPRO00100020013-6 unidentified objects. Planes had orders not to shoot. Now, let's examine for a moment what all these people claim to have seen. Grouped broadly as visual, radar, and combined visual and radar, ATIC has two major visual classes — first, spherical or elliptical objects, usually of bright metallic lustre, some small (2 or 3 feet across), most estimated at 100 foot diameter and a few 1000 feet wide. There are variants in this group, such as torpedos, triangulars, pencils, even mattress-shapes. These are all daylight reportings. The …

Approved For Relg@e 2001/0, 81ROOGHPR000100020013-6 ws) i complete absence of sound or vapor trail. Evasion upon approach is common e Radars have shown many unidentified "blips® but there is no reported instance of complete tracking in and out of the maximum drum, and no report of a track from station to station. The blip, in almost every case, passed through the center of the scope. In combined visual and radar sightings, I might mention as illustra- tions three specific reports. First, a visual sighting from a plane over Sandy Hook coincident with a blip seen on a ground radar at Fort Monmou…

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va . AWBroved For Reig 2001/04/02 SEPARRDPs 1RoggsoROggs Q0p20013-6 Pad Security Inforscetion NATIONAL SECURTR® QOWNCIL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTIVE "ae SUBJECT: Unidentified flying objeets _- - - Pureuent to the provisions of Seetion 102 ef the National Sewurity Act of 19h7 and for the purposes annuncieted in Paras graphs d and e thereof, the National Security Geancil hereby euthorites and directs thats. : , 1, The Director of Centgal Intelligence shall formulate end carxy out a progran of tatelligence and reeearch activie ties required to eolwe the problem of instant positive — identification of u…