FLYING SAUCERS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005515936
• 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 1, 1952

C00015341
xnrom?fAL
Deputy Assistant Director/SI
Acting Chief, Weapons & logid.l=ent Division
"Flying Saucers"
1. Pursuant to ycur request cr overall ervalnotion of "shying
saucers" and asst star repasts, the following is pertinent:
a. Of loco to 2000 such reports received by /TIC, a
large pcrcentaae are clearly "phoney". An equally large
percentarre can be satisfactorily a mined as known flights
of currently operational U.S. equipment (ain't,. water
balloons, etc.) and -mV othere are u.' oubtedly of natural
pbena-etaa (aotearites, clout", aberration of light caused
by thereat inversion or reflections, etc.).
b. Less than 1C0 reasoneb2;- credible. reports remain
ai? able" at this tine; regarding these reports,
there is no pattern of specific sizes, canfU-Jratiors,
c~sactcristics, perfo: ace, or location. The sources
of '?hese re:. arts are generally no more or less credible
than the sources of the other categories. It is probable
that if conplete.frfor ation were available far, presently
a=ezpls?aable" reports, they, too, could be rlu tc into
categories as'iardicated in "a" above.
2. rots:ithsta-.ding the foregoing tentative facts, so long as
a series of reports re_rains ";unexplainable" (iaterp}anetazy aspects
and yes origin not bairn, t'hnroughly ern uded from condicderstion)
ewaticn requires that inteUL? ence continue coverage of the subject.
3. It is reco=aaded that Cli aurvolllanco of subject ratter,
in coo= i.ration vdta ;never authorities of prinery operational concern
at ATIC, be cog; iausd. It is stront;1I urCed, ha? , that no indication,
of Cab interact or concern roach the press or public, in view of their
probable ofern st tendencies to accept such interest as "confirmatory"
of the sass of "unpublished facts" in the brads of the U. S.
Govt.
4. The vniersin;.cd has erran'ed with the Cc u3irg officer or
the P.i ^_sa-b?nicol Iatalli,ezce Center at tiri ht-Pattorron Air Force
Base, Chic, for a thcrouCh and cotspreheensive briefing related to this
subject an 8 lrurrost 1952. Subsce. ent to obtr-inia? full details, a
detailed aza;rzis will be prepared and foruarded.