INQUIRY INTO UFOS STILL HELD NEEDED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090022-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: December 15, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/06/12: CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090022-5
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some Congressional conunitteti
investigate the unidentif
? *yin( objects (UFOs). Put tb
iftwe as a loogibot pessiby
# is not a probability. The
teal Intelligence Agency is
a an the mettle, as it slime
he. been, and the CIA, by the
Latift_of its ditUes, does
w
taut* owe the Public-
, iir,i.t,. nthe U740`0 demand stew
;,ellos. They condi* te be liege
.1he shy by pasta, sued* officials
, with special cognisance of the
atmospbera above us and by ?th-
en with some reputatioe for re-
liability. The Air Force disclaim-
ers that them strange objects re-
late to anything bet familiar eh-
; jade mistakenly identified, often
Amigo the patent truth, and
sometimes approach the Adieu-
leas.
.ficWrat-
Ney Letter for Comaineeders"
r meads age bee caused
semmeets
as the tmidesti-
fly* objects. TIP Peliodie
, from the off* of the sec-
ei the air' pane ' mod ' POI 411111141411i UGO
by the director of infer- The peregraphs quoted are not
sewn ether matters. written for the public, but for,
that "dodeg, the Air Air Force corandiders, and that ,P
major seedibetiors to may be why they seem to treat li
the UFO eject with somewhat
the atios's scientific Progrese:dere gNltity time the Air Force'
iend military security is the op-:,does in some of its public al-
Xdourence G. Hanscom Field, ibeviegpigkideo, *dad they aro
eillance Control Center et Military pilots, d course, are
oration el the National Spacer leged sepienstions of sightings.
Sury
Bedford. Mass. Tb, Control Con- 'oder Solitary secrecy.
tar catalogues for defense nn-: Dr, HAM hal, hod the dart,
valiance purposes all artificial item the Air feree's ileet acid-
satellites lanuched by this coun?OffieMed eo fez as
try or other nations." Aad so on I htlowa, he has arm failed to ex-
about the work of the Center, San away every aidistinfl? 81111*
Then eomee thie: his 'intimations. and this wrk? -
"There is a relationship bot.'thas Visdabli. thin MM:Pees the Air Force's interest in bilSd --
OPP; imrveillance and its continffly
luaus surveillance of the straw-
chore sew earth for unidentified
'NAV dietila-11110.? A.
dribs wkif UM primary teepee-
blJMy oi providing forces for
!aerospace defame o( the United
;States, the Air Force has been, 1,
bee IN7, studYielf and anabai
reported sightino Cl UFOs, j
;Wanda, astronomical objects.
"Dv- .1. Alien *nob, head of
the Department at. Astronomy:
'and director of the observatory I.
at Northeastern Ifeiverdy, is
the chief seientille. trensuitant to ?
the Air Faroe on lite eubjeot of:
Usideatified Thing Objects.i
"A selected seisatifk group un- t;
tier the supervision di the Air I;
Tor* Pies the facilities of the ?
Air Force's Aerospace Technical
latelligeace Center, and the en.;
tke facilities of the nation's sei- ?
deltic and technical community,
as well as the National Spec* .
C.00trol Center, ?
watch on objects of all !
in the net reaches d shy
air planet."
"abider the Pair
Increasingly, the fact mans to
.to that the CIA and eth?er mew-
- y officials are determined to
Weld _the ;while
from the plain-
fy indicated truth, which is that
a minority Cl the mYstaictle ob?
jects represent pmething real
which the Air Force has besa on-
able to identify. The explanation
Ezby the former dad d
Ad , Adhdral
, to MS* ellindicast-
It is that the Air Force a &men
years ago, when the &and don
in first appeared, thought there
might be national panic V it told
tbe truth, that it didn't know
what some Cl the objects were,
and so told the public they rep-
resented misidentificstions of fa-
miliar objects: now the Air Force
beeps repeating this because it is
stuck with that story. Bear
fidthFOs WS('
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Is
U'e appeariog
Um 1341?-iti attire
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wevereetice, Dr. Rpm* Is
est suois a ?moist' Wier as
concksions iedicate.
ft Would weer possible that Dr.
Ilya* has been immured by
the Air Force that its official
list Cl explaining-swap is the
asessearY fine in the Whoa& is-
tered.
lid doss the Air rem utilise
sorra* definitions of "nation-
al interest" sad "satiated ?
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/06/12 : CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090022-5