Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States, 1948

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aligru:ient of these nations
be observod at an increaoine rote over the u. s.
pean nations and the u.s. b~ tho appearance of a new
foilure to i dentify such a
. S. dovelopm
to characterize the&e incid tn entirely_
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nev we~pon to counteract
abilit~ of the U. S. t o obtain full propaganda
effectivenees with the atom
It will be remeI!l'berad t hat strange
objects first appeared over he Scandinavian coUhtriee in 1946.
The ob­
jects observed there had unu ual range and unusual performance oharacteris­
tics. As this demonstration over tho Scandinavian countries occurred
tho U. S. was making a v1goro s campaign for t he economic and political
th other pro~merican ieatern ~uropean na­
tions.
\?hen
subsidod, strange flyine; objPcts bocan to
The conclusion on this
point is that flyill(; object may h~ve been used to frighten both Euro-
device, and thnt
object would give them invaluable in­
dication that U
i s far behind that of tho Soviets.
Except for thi1J
i e believed that the uce of tho objects
to promoto fear
hleaa 1n that the U. S. public has tended
an ho.llucinationE1 by ''crack pote11 ,
misldentific~t1on of convent onal objecta, or that they repres~nt a secret
American project
not be publici~ed. Any fear that micht re­
ault from Soviet
e only b~ a discovery that the objects h4ve
been Soviet aircraft and t
they involve radical developmanta which
ore 1n advance of our
objeot~ for the cellecticn
~hotograph1o intGlligence or the mappil'IB
of certain aren1 in the U.S
The evaaive action emplo7ed by all objocta
•16hted
an attempt to avoid bei!l€ aightod. na an
~ttcmpt to prevent d11clo1u
of the ex&ct t;vpe of fl1ing crmtt and it•
miaeion.
!rhe ~l~ht1nc of o eets over the U.S. ru o ~een most intense 1A
•
Eaetorn and Westorn Coa~t
ln addition, Jightitl&• of flying ooJeote
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