UFO HUSH BLAMED ON CIA MEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200450001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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ase commander, 'and he
assed it on to the CIA. which
lassified the reporl again,"
fcDonald said.
he CIA's stated reason for
I bunking flying saucer reports,
cording to McDonald, was thatlc
UL-5'U- Unidentified
;dying objects seen over the
United States for the past
7.8 years may be visitors
from outer space here on
reconnaissance missions, an
eminent University of Aria
rona physicist said yester-
day.
Dr. James E. McDonald,
;.senior physicist in the Institute
of Atmospheric Physics at the
u.tiversity, said he reluctantly;
ith less official recognition of
f FOs there would be a corre-
nding drop in public interest
d there would be fewer report-
sightings.
The CIA also said in the de-
nking order that civilian UFO
PYRGHT
et, are here on peaceful re-
aissance missions.
at would explain the "buz-
incidents, the hovering of
flybys of aircraft," McDon-
theorized.
e said the outer space idea
`the least unacceptable ex-
ii-based Aerial Phenomena Re-
arch Organization (APRO)
ould be kept under surveil-
ace because they might be
Ibversive.
.
has accepted the extraterres- Speaking before a group of
trial theory aI.. r intensive re-
search into UFOs.
In addition, Dr. McDonald
charged that the Central In-
telligence Agency has ordered
all reports of UFOs to be offi-
cially "debm.:ced" by the Air
Force.
In the 'process of his re-
search at Project Blue Book
headquarters at Wright - Pat-
terson AFB, Ohio, where the
Air Force compiles reports of
saucer sightings, McDonald. .
,
wa.s inadvertently permitted to i they are from some. other
see the classified CIA order.
It was attached to the Robert
son Report, a government-spon~
aored investigation of the UFO
problem by a group of respected
scientists.
The Robertson Report, named
after its chairman, Cal Tech
'physicist H. P. Robertson, is
also classified and has been so'
at CIA request since the report
was completed in 1957.
CIA agent P. G. Strong, who'
signed the secrecy order, said
the UFOs must be debunked be
cause widespread reports of,
their sightings "were clogging,
up intelligence channels,", ac-
-cording to McDonald.
ctually closer to 50 per cent.
)
r Force investigators try
er balloons,. birds, inversion]
FOIAb3b
layers, clouds, reflected Iights1
or aircraft.
"But too many of the reports
are from credible, trained ob-
servors who do not seek publi-I
city or gain, and these repor
are not being throughly investits
-
gated," he said.
He scored the Air Force for
enforcing a regulation that
makes it a crime for airmen,
to report UFO sightings to
ficial silence about radar ob-
servations, visual sightings by
pilots and detection by space
apparatus
One of the world's leading i
atmospheric physicists," Mc-'. .
Donald said he casually asked.
Project Blue nook personnel.,
at Wright-Patterson if he could
see the Robertson Report.
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Q.ti s titled t d 't 1
re
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f , t alt(. ma
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otes. When I returned three
ionths later I asked k) make
'
f crox copies of the report.
A he e request bounced a to t'
ysic students and members
the faculty yesterday, McDon-
d-said there is quite strong
ter space.
"I haven't the slightest idea
said. "They don't fit any
f rm that we know here on
rth. The only thing that can
f the known evidence is that
theses that he has rejected)
traveling, extra-sensoiy~this has resulted in a vast of.
hysteria, misinterpreted
al phenomena, secret ad-
aircraft, secret societies,
messengers of salvation.
cDonald said the Air Force
failed in the job of col-;
ing and correctly investigat-I
is say that 95 per cent of
S can be explained, while
r -cent of the sightings defy
t UFOs are extraterrestrial."?Jis
e said the patterns of sight-
i s suggest that the saucers,Ih