LETTER TO HONORABLE HUBERT H. HUMPHREY FROM JOHN A. MCCONE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2003
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ASR 1962
Honorable Hubert H.
United States ;-enat*
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i "re'n't to thank you l;~r bringing attend . ?y'l a P+..itIve ee;. e*sira Of inter*st arasost heartening.
(Signed); JOHN A.. McCONZ
John A. McCane
Director
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Legislative Counsel, 7DO1
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FORM N0. Replaces Form 30-4
APR 55 237 which may be used.
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t, i. Dcd!; JOHN .L Mc"C
Jo r .. *VC:
Director
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MEMORANDUM FOR, THE DIRECTOR
Attached is a proposed letter for your
signature to Representative Morris. This was
prepared in OSI and concurred in by Pete
Scoville. Representative Morris had enclosed
an article on "fireball lightning" and queried
whether or not this could possibly have been
a weapons system used to down the Powers
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Ronc rable mss g.
Roue of Bapmeeatetiv
w4shlogtcn 9% D. C.
Bear Kr, was:
Via& you very dab for bringing to my atte$tin the
article rXIM the tian Sc a orbs reg"a the use of
'mil otutng" as a d ensive v ep #:.
Obs t-icue of ball light and thea"tio i3? axpln..
tiara for it have been made since the mid-170 s. The recent
rota t in the subject tae instigated by & hypothetical modael
te AOweSUOU f1tet . ted 'by the Soviet scientist P. L.
itza in 1935. Sime thtn, u attem have been mmele
to ern the Gaon, both by Soviet and west= seientiasts,
but Mot or Hsu we in the ram of thug aid open uUtion.
t -t kawn publication of a ve%mm application vas
tb*
bwation of a non-fin article by Q. 1. Bret in a
popular Russian ermine, an ntiawd in the for a .icle..
Work In the Unii Ctattea been in pregt'easa for
eo tine investigating the pessibU application of bail 11.g thing
es a defy ive veapn x7st4we The basic ressamb Is being carried
out by the Air Tom Office of Auvepw r Research. in addition to
Vair VOft, several side t industrial concerns have been
ca rr ing out research to this general area. A amt 3=14 sad
read account of the Arsaw Bsaa yottian York as a
tae similar to t` pry by Rabat can be found to the
wept beer 3B, 1960 Issue of B1ectrt a sm.
The use of ball ligbtui as a WOOPCDC system in a
subject eb appeale to the popular i gination and, ccneesusnt3y,
OIVM appears in 111piftwe"d f in heard] irk magee-
&in*$* quent3y it is difficult, ernes tar the technical
pace 1, to sift the fa y f tre icelly teuuib3,ae pr sals.
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2b* C Intelligence ASWX7 be been xatchimg s tets
in this aet& rather t i1r to same time. Ve do not believe
that the 8eriats be p such a VWTM system,. 40 we
expoct, them to to so in the foreseeable future. Aace~ft4ay, it
is not a dd exad possible that a weapm mxb as this was used
to down the aircraft pilots, by JW. Poe rs
1tille we do wt ftvwd the ind rezti?n in this ]setter
as ttdwle?Uy cISsaifi d, we w p er that In any use
msha of the inforaeetton it not to attributed to the Age r,
Ply tat us know if this is any other mW in ch we can bbee
of assists?
jSigned); JOHN A. McCONE
John A. i cCt t
Director
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MEt1ORANDUR, FOR: THE DIRECTOR
signature to Repsesentative: Norris. _=This was
,Attached is a proposed letter: for your
=.a weapons system used to down the Powers
whether or not this could possibly have been
,,.an article on "fireball ightning" and queried
Scoville. Representative'Morris had enclosed
prepared in -OSI and `concurred' in: by :Pete
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