MEMO TO AD/SI FROM DAD/C/SI

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 26, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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FROM ` DA'?/C/" I
STATINTL
DATE:26 Cctober 1957
called to tell me that Air Force had approached
him or permission to declassify the conclusions of the "Report
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STATINTL I told w-e would examine the matter and Maj. Byrne should
contact me directly. I will take the necessary action on this on
my return.
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 Government Operations,Senate Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations
Acting Chief, Donald F. a'Donnell
STATINTL L
Maj. Byrne called 28 Oct. re the declassification
of the UFO report. He is going to send over the
portion the AF wishes to declassify.
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MEMORANDUM FOR.- AIC3ncp Dicoctog,, Co
SUBJECT U aideanti sod Flyingpvct Repwtad on 20 SrapttmQ X937
1. As ctpwtod by co poaents of tha US Ait Me= Command, an unidentifiod
flying 60ect (UFO) was trraeked by US ys c a rel?tivvly stvQight ceaa'se from the
Bost,aPn tip of Long Island to the vicinity of i C loo Tho obgacc, was vopo redly moving,
wwstwo d of an olti,?udo of 50,0120 foot and z6 ezd of 2, t ktsa "Ja miflg" was
rtpcwt d by szve&I mdors in this vicinity an:, v;7zshvo7d as for as Chic ;0, Ina sub-
sequent b- o ing ffoc ppc s~ntatid s of rho 'IAC, t?ii US Aip Facet? popi~ rod that Ae
original Q om had hear dogr dod s awhal~? by inff aHoa thous %0 ~hom was an
11 minute ak in the taoch; ~b) woachar c d?tri~s in tha am-a, wort off the type which
have in Oka past produced false edema, pips en 3 clectm@,ic lnto4nz,a co; (e) 1-47?s aff
SAC wow on rho apaa neon Chicago on an 1:CM tQoh h ffliefi'. Tho ADC hos not
completed its invasti otion of this incidont, but in any c wont it n?2^9 sGo as clecP that
the phenomena rape uled west of Buffffala w ; not PeIoted to the UUF?O
2. We have no intoll?a ;vnca o Soeakt activities (&20 .,, Ic me sage air, c~r
marina, e' naaPchortt shippinj oe $ions) whsch n bo ralotod spsciffically to thes
Pepaged event. We Elie ve it unlikely that a S iot ainu'aft ccMld conduct a mission
at this speed and altitude and etum to floc tox*Koryo Howe peg-, we credit the USS!
with ohs copabilityy to hove a sub arri~ue is ached crraaise Type r&ssile of low
i c perff ante and a range of abw1500 no o, but ors have no specific evidence
of the onistonco of such a e aiwile.
3. 'A'10 haves exo wined p sibk S 'ce;t s gtivos Tarr launchoTo a 'ane? y vQl`eicle
on an opeat on o' i the US, and conssde' brat there waoevld be little motivation at this
time, except possibly a psychologicl o @enI k t motive, whic? we [soave is
ma8ginal. One-viay reconnaissance ope ,tie ns aye l vgely pled out by the likelihood
that the Yvsults would be of small vole , and the Fisk of compronrisa would be vory
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4. We ccreclads, thamff , that it #5 highly i apPOboble that w Soviet opomflon
is aesponsihle fo the UFO poi of 20 Septerrbwo
5. Consicladng, the facts that tha ADC investigation is incomplete, and that
weather phanorEno aPa inemasingly likely oxplofoPi?fs of the ceigin-al ropom,
Qocanimand that, eao QAC maoting be wiled an thiz subject of this t3meo
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