CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020012-7.pdf

Security Informattan _ Approved For R@pse 2001/04/92 SEGREBPs1Ragys0R000100020012-7 DRAFT COVER SHEET INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY COMMITTER Flying Unidentified Objects (Flying Saucers) i. Attached is a proposed letter to Secretary Lovett)Trom the DCI recommending the initiation of fundamental. scientific research with respect to the nature and causes of unidentified flying objects (Flying Saucers). 2. While it is recognized that the implications of Flying Saucers are of primary concern to the Defense Department in carrying out its responsibility to defend the United States, it is also believed that …

. "Approved For Rew 2001/04/02 : ClALRIIE8 1 ROGBEOR00100020012- -7 Security Informatler DRAFT Lotter LiGMORANDUM FOR: Secretary of DeDense Ta tlernntd eo NS ~( SUBJHCT: Unidentified Flying Objects (Flying Saucers) 1. The IAC has reviewed the current situation concerning unidentified flying objects which have caused extensive speculation in the press and have been the subject of concern to Governnent organizations. The Air Force, within the limitations of manpower which could be devoted to the subject, has thus far carried the full responsibility for investigating and analyzing individual repo…

. - Age cael ER - 3 - 2872 _.. Approved For Reldfe 2001/04/08 Gik-RDPS 1 R00%R000100020012-7 \ ocT 2 1952 MEMORANDUM TOs Director of Central Intelligence THROUGH: Deputy Director (Intelligence) FROM: Assistant Director, Office of Scientific Intelligence SUBJECT: Flying Saucers 1. PROBLEM--To determine: (a) Whether or not there are national security implications in the problem of "unidentified flying objects"; (b) whether or not adequate study and research is currently being directed to this problem in its relation to such national security implications; and (c) what further investigation and r…

- _. Approved For Rel@e 2001/04/02 :GiA:RDP81 ROOGPR000100020012-7 policy of public information which will minimize concern and possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified objects. ~ Dospan Assistant Director Scientific Intelligence ANNEXES : TAB A--Memorandum to DCI, through DDI, Subject: Flying Saucers. TAB B--Letter to National Security Council with enclosure. TAB C-~Memo to Director, Psychological Strategy Board with enclosure. CONCURRENCES : Date: LOFTUS E. BECKER Deputy Director/Intelligence ACTION BY APPROVING AUTHORITY: Dates Approved (disapproved): WALTER B. S…

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7 se Approved For Regs zoos bP REA nore raggsoRoooroonshee te | SECURITY INFORMATION SEP 24 1952 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence THROUGH : Deputy Director (Intelligence) SUBJECT : Flying Saucers 1, Recently an inquiry was conducted by the Office of Scientific Intelligence to determine whether there are national security implications in the problem of "unidentified flying objects," i,e., flying saucers; whether adequate study and résearch is currently being directed to this problem in its relation to such national security implications; and what further investigation and resear…

°¢ “=., Approved For Rese 2001/04/02 *CIA-RDP81 RO@éeOR000100020012-7 5, It was found that the ATIC study is probably valid if the purpose is limited to a case-by-case explanation. However, that study does not solve the more fundamental aspects of the problen, These aspects are to determine definitely the nature of the various phenomena which are causing these sightings, and to discover means by which these causes, and their visual or electronic effects, may be identified immediately, The CIA consultants stated that these solutions would probably be found on the mrgins or just beyond the front…

SEGREI _ Approved For Rese 2001/04/02 : CIA- -RDP81RO@BBORO00100020012- -7 The public concern with the phenomena, which is reflected both in the United States press and in the pressure of inquiry upon the Air Force, indicates that a fair proportion of our population is mentally conditioned to the acceptance of the incredible, In this fact lies the potential for the touching-off of mass hysteria and panic, b. Air Vulnerability - The United States Air Warning System will undoubtedly always depend upon a combination of radar screen- ing and visual observation. The U.S.S.R. is credited with the pr…