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ST~WCD FORill NO. 6'
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Office Memorandum • uNrTEn sTATEs GovERNMENT
TO
llR. A. H. BELJ/ONTO>('>~(}/
DATE: October 27,
FROM
Y. P. KEAr;'~;_--- ~1/
y SUBJECT: ()FLYING SAUCERS
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Aiz:.. ~Intelligence advised of another creditable and
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u11,expl~lnable ~~9.,.hti ng of flying sauc~~s.
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still teeLs fly(ng saucers are oetical illusions or a;11t0.a;;,
phericaLplJ,,enoml]_n~a_but some Vilit(fry of1icials are ,vriQ,1&;.Qly
considering the,..2~s!ibility of int~£1anetary ships.
BACKGBOUNJJ:
You will recall that Air Intelligence has previously
kept the Bureau advised regarding developments pertaining to Air
Intelligence research on the flying saucer problem.
Air Intelligence
has previously advised that all researdh p ertaining to this Rroblem
is handled by the Air Tecbnical Inte-Ingence Center located at
W~i"ht-Patt~ca..eJJ-.A.t
Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; that approximately
90 per cent of the reported sightings of flying saucers can be
discounted. as products of the imagination and as explainable objects
such as weather balloons, etc., but that a small percentage of
extremely creditable sightings have been unexplainable.
DETAILS:
Colonel a. J/. You~_ Executive Officer to J/ajor General
Jo"!}n A,.. Sam,/o r]t JJi recTJor 07-Inte11igence, Atr fore§. adJJ •st{J on
Octqker 2.,, 1952, that a~other recent extremel"11_creditable sighting
had been_!!Ported to Air Intelligence.
A, Nauv photogT.!:,J:,_her, while
trauellng across the united States in his own car, saw a number of
ohiec~s in tae. s.1£JI_J]h}.gh appeared to be flying saucers.
He tooK
OPJ?roximat~ly thirt,JJ;,jiue Jeet of mozion-picture film of these
ob_,je#t~.
He voluntart~y submitted the fiJ.J!:. to Air Intelligence who
had it st~died by the Air Technical Intelligence Center.
Experts
at the Air Technical rn;telltgence..Qenter have advised that, a'?t'e'r
care,ful study_ the_re were as many as -twelve to sixteen flying objects
re~orded on t,b~a .f..jlJJJ; that the posstbility o,tweather balloons,
clouds or qlher explainable objects has been comi1e!"'eLy ruled out; /
and that t}u y_a eat a complete loss to explain this most recent
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creditable sighting.
The Air Technical Intelligence Center experts
pointed out that they could not be optical tllusions inasmuch as
opt teal lllusions could not be -~•c:rz~ ~ " - ''.!,.· '.PV- .3,t/;.!)
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