- New York Times 1-14-79
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- C.I.A. PAPERS DETAIL U.F.O. SURVEILLANCE ------------
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- Agencies Secret Studies Convince
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- Arizona Research Group That Flying Saucers "Are
Real" ------------
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- PHOENIX, Jan. 13- Documents obtained in a lawsuit against
the Central Intelligence Agency show that the agency is secretly involved
in the surveillance of unidentified flying objects and has been since 1949,
an Arizona based U.F.O. group said yesterday.
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- The C.I.A. has repeatedly said that it investigated and
closed it's books on U.F.O.'s during 1952, according to Ground Saucer Watch,
a nation-wide research organization of about 500 scientists, engineers
and others who seek to scientifically prove or disprove the existence of
U.f.O.'s, but 100 pages of documents obtained under a freedom of information
suit, show "the Government has been lying to us all these years,"
it said.
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- Embassies Gather Information
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- Mr. Spaulding an aerospace engineer with Airesearch,
one of the largest producers of aerospace components, said the documents
show the United States embassies are used to help gather information on
U.F.O. sightings and that the information "seems to be directed to
the C.I.A., the White House and the National Security Agency."
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- A C.I.A. memo of Aug. 1, 1952, recommends continued agency
surveillance of "flying saucers," saying, "it is strongly
urged, however, that no indication of C.I.A. interest or concern reach
the press or public, in view of their probably alarmist tendencies to accept
such interest as 'confirmatory' of the soundness of 'unpublished facts'
in the hands of the U.S. government," the document said.
-
- Among the documents are several detailed reports of Air
Force attempts to either intercept or destroy U.F.O.'s.
-
- In a 1976 incident in Iran, one report says, two F-4
Phantom jet fighters pursued a large U.F.O. that seemed to send out smaller
craft. One of their smaller craft "headed straight toward the F-4
at a very fast rate of speed,' the report said. "The pilot attempted
to fire an Aim-9 missile at the object but at that instant his weapons
control panel went off and he lost all communications." The pilot
eluded the craft, then watched as it "returned to the primary object
for a perfect rejoin," the report continued.
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- Concern About Russian Aims
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- A major point of concern, a C.I.A. document of Oct. 2,
1952, shows, is that U.F.O. sightings could mask Russian air attacks, or
"psychological warfare." The report to the director of Central
Intelligence from the assistant director for the Office of Scientific Intelligence
recommends the the National Security Council be advised of the "implications
of the flying saucer problem"; that the matter be discussed with the
Psychological Strategy Board, and that the C.I.A. help "develop a
policy of public information which will minimize concern and possible panic
resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified objects."
-
- A document dated November 1975, directs against acknowledging
any pattern in sightings. "Unless there is evidence which links sightings,
or unless media queries link sightings, queries can best be handled individually
at the source and as questions arise," it said. "Response should
be direct, forthright and emphasize that the action taken was in response
to an isolated or specific incident."
-
- Mr. Spaulding says the documents show that there are
links and patterns in the sightings. From that evidence, he says, he believes
U.F.O.'s are here on surveillance missions.
-
- "We find a concentration of sightings around our
military installations, research development areas," he said. "
The U.F.O. phenomenon is following what our own astronauts are doing on
other planets- we send a scoutship, we take soil samples and then we land."
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- Another Suit Pending
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- Mr. Spaulding said he has sworn statements from retired
Air Force colonels that at least two U.F.O.'s have crashed landed and have
been recovered by the Air Force.
-
- One crash, he said, was in Mexico in 1948 and the other
was near Kingman, Ariz., in 1953. He said the retired officers claimed
they got a glimpse of dead aliens who were in both cases about four feet
tall with silverish complexions and wearing silver outfits that "seemed
fused to the body from the heat."
-
- Mr. Spaulding said his group is waiting for a Federal
Judge to rule on the last phase of its C.I.A. suit, which seeks access
to 57 items that would provide "hard evidence" of U.F.O.'s or
"retrievals of the third kind." That evidence includes motion
pictures, gun camera film and residue from landings, he said.
-
- Among the films they want is 40 to 48 frames taken in
1952 by Ralph Mayher, then a cameraman for KYW-TV in Cleveland and now
a member of Ground Saucer Watch. The Air Force borrowed the film in 1957
and has never returned it. The official finding was that the object was
a meteor, Mr. Spaulding said.
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- "We're past the story-telling stage," Mr. Spaulding
said. "We have to have it in black and white to satisfy the scientific
community. We have to establish the existence of the object to all the
people in Missouri and then figure out who's driving it." --------------------------------
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- From Frank Warren frank-warren@pacbell.net 8-20-01
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- New York Times 1-14-79
-
- C.I.A. PAPERS DETAIL U.F.O. SURVEILLANCE
-
-
- Agencies Secret Studies Convince Arizona Research Group
That Flying Saucers "Are Real"
-
- PHOENIX, Jan. 13- Documents obtained in a lawsuit against
the Central Intelligence Agency show that the agency is secretly involved
in the surveillance of unidentified flying objects and has been since 1949,
an Arizona based U.F.O. group said yesterday.
-
- The C.I.A. has repeatedly said that it investigated and
closed it's books on U.F.O.'s during 1952, according to Ground Saucer Watch,
a nation-wide research organization of about 500 scientists, engineers
and others who seek to scientifically prove or disprove the existence of
U.f.O.'s, but 100 pages of documents obtained under a freedom of information
suit, show "the Government has been lying to us all these years,"
it said.
-
- Embassies Gather Information
-
- Mr. Spaulding an aerospace engineer
with Airesearch, one of the largest producers of aerospace components,
said the documents show the United States embassies are used to help gather
information on U.F.O. sightings and that the information "seems to
be directed to the C.I.A., the White House and the National Security Agency."
-
- A C.I.A. memo of Aug. 1, 1952, recommends continued agency
surveillance of "flying saucers," saying, "it is strongly
urged, however, that no indication of C.I.A. interest or concern reach
the press or public, in view of their probably alarmist tendencies to accept
such interest as 'confirmatory' of the soundness of 'unpublished facts'
in the hands of the U.S. government," the document said.
-
- Among the documents are several detailed reports of Air
Force attempts to either intercept or destroy U.F.O.'s.
-
- In a 1976 incident in Iran, one report says, two F-4
Phantom jet fighters pursued a large U.F.O. that seemed to send out smaller
craft. One of their smaller craft "headed straight toward the F-4
at a very fast rate of speed,' the report said. "The pilot attempted
to fire an Aim-9 missile at the object but at that instant his weapons
control panel went off and he lost all communications." The pilot
eluded the craft, then watched as it "returned to the primary object
for a perfect rejoin," the report continued.
-
- Concern About Russian Aims
-
- A major point of concern, a C.I.A.
document of Oct. 2, 1952, shows, is that U.F.O. sightings could mask Russian
air attacks, or "psychological warfare." The report to the director
of Central Intelligence from the assistant director for the Office of Scientific
Intelligence recommends the the National Security Council be advised of
the "implications of the flying saucer problem"; that the matter
be discussed with the Psychological Strategy Board, and that the C.I.A.
help "develop a policy of public information which will minimize concern
and possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified
objects."
-
- A document dated November 1975, directs against acknowledging
any pattern in sightings. "Unless there is evidence which links sightings,
or unless media queries link sightings, queries can best be handled individually
at the source and as questions arise," it said. "Response should
be direct, forthright and emphasize that the action taken was in response
to an isolated or specific incident."
-
- Mr. Spaulding says the documents show that there are
links and patterns in the sightings. From that evidence, he says, he believes
U.F.O.'s are here on surveillance missions.
-
- "We find a concentration of sightings around our
military installations, research development areas," he said. "
The U.F.O. phenomenon is following what our own astronauts are doing on
other planets- we send a scoutship, we take soil samples and then we land."
-
- Another Suit Pending
-
- Mr. Spaulding said he has sworn statements
from retired Air Force colonels that at least two U.F.O.'s have crashed
landed and have been recovered by the Air Force.
-
- One crash, he said, was in Mexico in 1948 and the other
was near Kingman, Ariz., in 1953. He said the retired officers claimed
they got a glimpse of dead aliens who were in both cases about four feet
tall with silverish complexions and wearing silver outfits that "seemed
fused to the body from the heat."
-
- Mr. Spaulding said his group is waiting for a Federal
Judge to rule on the last phase of its C.I.A. suit, which seeks access
to 57 items that would provide "hard evidence" of U.F.O.'s or
"retrievals of the third kind." That evidence includes motion
pictures, gun camera film and residue from landings, he said.
-
- Among the films they want is 40 to 48 frames taken in
1952 by Ralph Mayher, then a cameraman for KYW-TV in Cleveland and now
a member of Ground Saucer Watch. The Air Force borrowed the film in 1957
and has never returned it. The official finding was that the object was
a meteor, Mr. Spaulding said.
-
- "We're past the story-telling stage," Mr. Spaulding
said. "We have to have it in black and white to satisfy the scientific
community. We have to establish the existence of the object to all the
people in Missouri and then figure out who's driving it."
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