RESPONSIBILITY FOR "UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS" (UFOB)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005515989
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: August 8, 1955

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Chief, Physics, and Electronics Division, SI
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Responsibility !or pUaidentified Flying Objects" (UeOHs~
A. b!emo to Ch/P..:E from AD/SI, 27 2?Say 53, "Unidentified
Flying ~~ects"
B. Me:ro to AD/SI frc.~s Ch/FFwt 3 ;7u1y y3,'Vnidentified
Flying Objects"
C . p'.ea:o Yor the Record sign_d by Ch/ASD, Ch/ops, and
Ch/P'vE, l~F Juns Sk, "Intelligence Responsibilities for
Non-Conveatianal Types oY Air Yehicles"
1. By reference A, this Dfvisioa Was assigned "r~spon=
sibility for maintsSning current knoxledge of sightings of
oaideatified. flying ob,+,ects."
2. By Teleran:e~B, which receivsd the concurrence of
yoLr of!'ice, this Division rroposed to handle its responsi-
bilities as fo11o,-s:
"a. the praMsct x111 be considered as inective
b. the incc~i.^.g ^s:erial x111 be re?riewed periodically
to segregate :r.erences to recognizable and explainable
gheao~'ra frc- those which co:tte under t2:e wafinition of
'unidentified flying o`+~sets' '
c. all raterial ca unidentified objects will be
depoait~d in tae files for futu.~c reference unless it
raises an i~zdiately recognizable problem of concern
to national security." '
3. Raference C clarified but did not raduce the responsi-
bility of this Division oa the subject project.
b. Since tY_e issuance of Reference A, tt~ responsibility
delineated in Far. 2b, above, hss required bst.raen 10 and 2q
ensi;st hoLrs psr month an3 tre responsibilities under ~aar? e'.+,
above, about half that much clerical tis:-.
 5. It is regtusted that this Divinioa b~ :?elicved of
the reapoasibilitles assigned to it unc:cr Reference A sinces
a. !io iuteliisence of concern ~o nation:-1 security
has been developed fray the pro~eet.
b. The pro~eet ea defined b:,r Reteseace C does not
fell wider the provision of DCIt} 4~4 oa Critical hation?.u
Iatelligence ObJectivrs.
t, R'eE'a successful participation is the F'Y-1gg6
0.gI Productiaa.Progrrm requires. that all non-essential
aetivi.oiea be tersSttated.
6. Ia vies of: the fact that no positive intel:igence of
sigaiFicance has bass pzocYucec;, urdar the subaeet'pro~ect, it 3s
recommended that tre pro3ect ^:e tezrsinatad and the riles thareot
be placed Sn dead sto~e~