Australia wanted a better UFO policy

This is a 1971 staff paper from the Australian Department of Defence (its Joint Intelligence Organisation) that analyses how U.S. officials, intelligence agencies, and scientists handled UFOs, with an attached timeline of U.S. UFO investigation. It recommends that Australia adopt its own intelligence and scientific approach to the problem. The paper reads like a government trying to learn from U.S. mistakes, looking at official policy, intelligence handling, public pressure, and weak science. It is one of the better documents for seeing the UFO issue as a question of administration rather than mythology.

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