LET'S GET THE FACTS ABOUT THE UFOS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 26, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/06/12 : CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090003-6
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Get the Facts ?
i;Abaut the UFOs. ?
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To the Editor of The Courant:
.(. With the delay in the release.'.
[of the Mariner Mats photos, as.
Into Courant recently pointed:
seemingly unjustified, on a:
(scientific, basis, there may be.
la ? more important reason
ivolved. While, as ? a recent'
r? .
iCourant headlined,
?Reports .Pour In From-
All?Cver. Globe,' release of the
;Ixtqr pictures, which were., pro-1
zrammed to travel .over ? canal..?
suspect regions, .with geomet0
exact canalmark0
;inks, -if indeed such canals ex-)
wouldcertainly cause quite
.a bit of :apprehension. Who.-,.1
fall 'to see ? the possible
'connection .between the two.
Even' the possibility that the
iphotos,_ when released, will be .1
1.retouched'so as to de-emphasize'an*
3, such markings, cannot bejl
Fconsidered, remote when one
: realizes. the' extent 'to Whf6h. the
'existence .of UFOs has been?..t,
covered up by the' Air Force,'.'0.
.which, in ? this case,. may be
? only a puppet of a.higher agen-A
'? Y .
? As Vice'
Hille
. tor. of t
iral Roscoel
mer
s said. "Be-
hind the , high - rankingl
'Air Force officers are soberly
:concerned about UFOs. But '
'..through official secrecy and ri-
dicule.., many citizens are led. to
:believe the 'unknown flying ob
..jei!tS are nonsense; Hundreds' of ::???
'.anthentic reports .by veteran.:?
:pilots ' and' other technically-)
..trained obseryers have been
ridiculed, or. explained :away as A
mistakes.: delusions.' or hoaxes:-
The Air Force has 'aSsumed the 3
rtht to decide what the Ameri-
en neoole shouldr h
.'
'.know. It is time for the. truth..1
.a o smilri not
to be brouitt ntit in open con-
'grPssional bearings." ? ? ?
?Thoie 'desiring. a release Of.
.the true .facts should write toS
'their congressmen, urging con-'.
gressional hearings..cin the .
,Force handling .ofIlle.1.1F.0
? . . -1 -IA
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, Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/06/12 : CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090003-6