RESPONSIBILITY FOR 'UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS' (UFOBS)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81R00560R000100080050-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: August 8, 1955
• Content Type: MEMO

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ce Memorandum UNITED STATr. GOVERNMENT
Acting Assistant Director
for Scientific Intelligence
DATE: AU G 8 1955
Chief, Physics and Electronics Division, SI
Responsibility for "Unidentified Flying Objects" (UFOBs)
REFERENCES: A. Memo to Ch/P&E from AD/SI, 27 May 53,"Unidentified
Flying Objects"
B. Memo to AD/SI from Ch/P&E, 3 July 53,"tJnidentified
Flying Objects"
C. Memo for the Record signed by Ch/ASD, Ch/Ops, and
Ch/P&E, 14 June 54, "Intelligence Responsibilities for
Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles"
1. By reference A, this Division was assigned "respon-
sibility for maintaining current knowledge of sightings of
unidentified flying objects."
2. By reference B, which received the concurrence of
your office, this Division proposed to handle Its responsi-
bilities as follows:
"a. the project will be considered as inactive
b. the incoming material will be reviewed periodically
to segregate references to recognizable and explainable
phenomena from those which come under the definition of
'unidentified flying objects"
c. all material on unidentified objects will be
deposited in the files for future reference unless it
raises an,immediately recognizable problem of concern
to national security."
3. Reference C clarified but did not reduce the responsi-
bility of this Division on the subject project.
4. Since the issuance of Reference A, the responsibility
delineated in par. 2b, above, has required between 10 and 25
analyst hours per month and the responsibilities under par. 2c,
above, about half that much clerical time.
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5. It is requested that this Division be relieved of
the responsibilities assigned to it under Reference A since:
a. No intelligence of concern to national security
has been developed from the project.
b. The project as defined by Reference C does not
fall under the provision of DCID 4/4 on Critical National
Intelligence Objectives.
c. P&E's successful participation in the FY-1956
OSI Production Program requires that all non-essential
activities be terminated.
6. In view of the fact that no positive intelligence of
significance has been produced under the subject project, it is
recommended that the project be terminated and the files thereof
be placed in dead storage.
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tickled again when program is revised if any
new information develo s perhaps in connection
with satellite program
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