RESPONSIBILITY FOR 'UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81R00560R000100080033-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: February 9, 1956
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT : Responsibility for "Unidentified Flying Objects"
REFERENCE: 1. AD/SI Memorandum for the Record, 9 January 1956,
"Office Responsibilities for Non-Conventional
Types of Air Vehicles"
2. Special Report #1h, Analysis of Reports of
Unidentified Aerial Objects (Project Blue Book)
by ATIC, dated 5 May 1955
1. In accordance with Reference 1, this Division has
assumed responsibility within OSI for Non-Convention]. Types of
Air Vehicles.
2. This Division proposes to handle this responsibility
in the following manner:
a. Files will be maintained in ASD on incoming raw
reports where, in our judgement, the subject matter may provide
information bearing on foreign weapons' system research or
development.
b. Those reports which fit under a. above and also could
conceivably provide information on foreign fundamental
science developments, will be forwarded to Fundamental
Sciences Area for review with a request for return to ASD
for filing.
c. Those reports which do not fit a. above and which
could conceivably provide information on foreign fundamental
science developments will be forwarded to the Fundamental
Science Area for retention or destruction,
d. Reports which fit under none of the above will be
destroyed.
e. A chronological file of all OSI correspondence and
action taken in connection with the United States U.F.O.
program will be maintained in ASD.
f. A file of finished intelligence reports published by
members of the United States intelligence community on
U.F.O. will be maintained in ASD.
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3. The procedure stated in 2 a., b., c., and d* will
prevent the accumulation of reports which experience and Reference
2 have shown cannot be analyzed in a manner useful to OSI in
carrying out its mission.
14. It has been recommended that the raw intelligence and the
obsolete finished reports on U.F.O. now filed in Electronics
Division be destroyed.
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