FLYING SAUCER ALERT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090027-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: March 4, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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i'TNG SAM:1M ALERT
"flying saucer" is bak to
p1,1:4(0 us. V,Thethet the Aififorce
i-ifwUy apprehensive or -thereiy,i
p uious isn't clear. 13ut it has
sont its commands a fresh warning,
to ',feat aii unidentified flying ob-1
:iccts ti:FO's) af, "serious busi- t
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?
There's a private "flying Saucer" !
? research group, privately financed,? '
that has letig accused the Air '.
Force inipublie of falsely describing
1_'70 repot s, as delusions and I
hoaxes while sending secret in-
s,'t ruction to its commands to be on
? the alert.
Whether the new UP40 warning
by the Air Force is just to appease 1,
? and quiet the flying saucer re-
? search group, or is genuine isn't 1
too clear. ? i .
But the group's spokesman, vice
Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter (ret)
and former director of the Central
intelliggna.A8PncY, says "it's time ,
fdr the truth to be brought out in ,
congressional hearings" and that
behind the scenes high-ranking Air
Force officers are soberly con-
cerned about the UFO's.
The retired admiral charges that
through official secrecy and
ridi-
cuiemanyy citizens are led to be-
lieve flying objects are nonsense..
Be says the Air FOree has open.",
a ted to hide the facts. '
If the Air Force considers the
unidentified objects as "serious
business" it is not In' the Public in-
terest to keep that concern a ss-
cret.
We suspect the Air Force simp-
? ly doesn't know the answer and
hesitates unduly to alarm the pub- -
lic
But apparently the Air Force is
?ever on the alert It has .investi-
gated 6312 UFO reports since 1947
with 183 of them irr ,the last six
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/06/12 : CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090027-0