REPORTED PHOTOGRAPHY OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

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0005516048
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2
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June 24, 2015
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January 31, 2011
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F-2010-00651
Publication Date: 
October 1, 1958
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C00015414? i3' ~er 1958 3~3lORAND~1t1 FOR: ~ ..- ,~.__~--- ,_ _ ___ . __ .. S[TBJl7CT: Reported Pbotol3rgpkY of IInideatitied Flying Ob~eats ]1.,,,?2t has come to s8+ sttentioa thot~~fa!~ ~e~viLti?'t~i' .~,,,,.,,,j . .w:.- .iS~.^v.Wis;;;?::~:t,::l~~~ T:t!.'i ~: ~311a beep: P~ exper mun ~ ~ ~ ~ag acv ~ s o - ~ emulsigns i+li3e~ he has bees exposing through a telescope set-up is big bacxyssd here in xashington. ? Dosing the course of his~~hotographic experiseats is the last three months he msaased, it is reported to me, to photograph oa a number oY oc=anions geomrtrieal?y shaped flying ob~sets as they pawed bet-wean his telescope and the moon. I have not seen these photographs and . have had no basinese to 3~ok for same but I have hs~d them reported ~G to me as a result o! our investigation of,~ ""?""~lpho~saphic prooesa vhieh seporEadlY delivers a ve egsee of resolution. Eacideatial to the exaainatioa of some ese.,hiah.reso~ttion 2. B3 ~ ? - ~ ~ - aver some - .,'~ tiraves, Iyou es o! as o en reported phenomenon. Whi~- iaight be of ,interest ~~ to ~ -gland to the iatel~,igeace comausity generrslly. at his home, one of my me{s ,,.?. ?. -:.` ;ar::3 . t be had photographed different groups at gev~rral _ ditYerent t].mes during the past three ~aoaths.` ? , ports to me that the photogiraphs of these ob~sots 6 ~ ~ ;~,,,,c1E agd certainly Sadicated a phenomenon for Which vets re a_, ~~~" ~3Y Y thR 't he found soae he ha3 no reedy explanation esid for which in st particularly in' I ~ t ~~ ere int amounts !l b? id ' S , ~ ~ ,y era ~, cona ~~ ~, tg'3 to get involved vithif then! is no iateras iaa these zeporyed saterials, and'I yo~u1d thestfose Welcoat your cocas 1 gad suggestion as to hov ve mSSttt get our hands on these materials to . ex~smine them firsthand.and~to msTce a moss caiPlete saalysis at them. G is exceedigg~y cagey in his *?+~!t~.oi these materiels azd Would not permit anyone to bormW a~U- of these materts].s. He axplaiaed that he was currently out of Work and that be had had a couple of _ recent controls with the 111r Technical 2atelligenee Center at Doyton. A contact with t::a :.: r Force ~ =?reals , t!:st 9s '.:ss ^.o contracts which are ~~ is etteet at the presort tile. ~'~?;,~,,~I~ppasrs to teed that hf has ? ?some xal evfdeaee of the existeaae o! naideatitied ~a8 objects is his pboto3r~-PaY e4d Y sa ware he wuid consider deZiveriag them to aoaoebody eat, r ' a price Fat, una ei sdi . ~+ copy of this ~~ ~p~duv t+oa3d bring him up to data oi! this sub~eat case ~ wu3d l~~'~~~ta1cR it up uniLterallT 'with him. Sri h? ybr: baaldrobod. it is aLo repo t ,.._.? atact with ' ?et up through ?~; '-=?t:?: t33 .aa'theretare' is soae iatbrmation ear .vs~ Ll.1i n ~i r ii lw:. Yau axe also uadou6tediv aYaire that the .Souse committee imFeaLigatiag Dater spacs end space phenomeos has reeeat]y Degn'addi~ssiag itse2! to the p~oblae of the nnideatitied tljriad ob3ects. and his been seelring to raviev .the evideaee ator certs~a Eotise representatives to aeter~elae what t-alidit~- this caacept might have. Aecorditss to the best intoaragitioa T_ have at the preaeat mumeot, after sewacel heari,nac on -Chia wb~ect this coaaeittee hae auspanded it's lanstigetioa !br aeve:al months attar which time it intends to reopea3 lbes. `