CIA releases X-Files

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CIA releases X-Files

Looks like the CIA is playing along with the X-Files series. Disclosure?

CIA releases new UFO 'X-Files' – including terrifying flying saucer over Sheffield
Rob WaughRob Waugh for Metro.co.ukMonday 25 Jan 2016 12:39 pm

UFO fans have gone mad – well, even more mad than usual – after the CIA just splurged a whole load of UFO files on their website.
Naturally, the wilder parts of YouTube are in FULL MELTDOWN over this – although, so far, there don't seem to be any alien limbs or crashed flying saucers in there.
One report, entitled, Flying Saucers and dated 1 August 1952, says, 'Less than 100 reasonably credible reports remain 'unexplainable' at this time. It is recommended that CIA surveillance be continued.
'It is strongly urged, however, that no reports of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public.

http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/25/cia-releases-new-ufo-x-files-including-terrifying-flying-saucer-over-sheffield-5643319/

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Take a Peek Into Our "X-Files"

The CIA declassified hundreds of documents in 1978 detailing the Agency's investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The documents date primarily from the late 1940s and 1950s.

To help navigate the vast amount of data contained in our FOIA UFO collection, we've decided to highlight a few documents both skeptics and believers will find interesting. Below you will find five documents we think X-Files character Agent Fox Mulder would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of extraterrestrial activity. We also pulled five documents we think his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use to prove there is a scientific explanation for UFO sightings.

The truth is out there; click on the links to find it.

Top 5 CIA Documents Mulder Would Love To Get His Hands On:

Flying Saucers Reported Over East Germany, 1952 (PDF 325 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015464.pdf

Minutes of Branch Chief's Meeting on UFOs, 11 August 1952 (PDF 162 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015441.pdf

Flying Saucers Reported Over Spain and North Africa, 1952 (PDF 266 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015465.pdf

Survey of Flying Saucer Reports, 1 August 1952 (PDF 175 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015341.pdf

Flying Saucers Reported Over Belgian Congo Uranium Mines, 1952 (PDF 262 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015463.pdf



Top 5 CIA Documents Scully Would Love To Get Her Hands On:

Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, 14-17 January 1953 (PDF 907 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015458.pdf

Office Memorandum on Flying Saucers, 15 March 1949 (PDF 110 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015337.pdf

Memorandum to the CIA Director on Flying Saucers, 2 October 1952 (PDF 443 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015339.pdf

Meeting of the OSI Advisory Group on UFOs, 21 January 1953 (PDF 194 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015352.pdf

Memorandum for the Record on Flying Saucers, 3 December 1952 (PDF 179 KB)
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/89801/DOC_0000015345.pdf

Do you want to believe? Then find out how to investigate a flying saucer.


Posted: Jan 21, 2016 05:18 PM
Last Updated: Jan 21, 2016 05:49 PM

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/blog/2016/take-a-peek-into-our-x-files.html

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How To Investigate a Flying Saucer



Southbound on a lone desert highway, police officer Lonnie Zamora was in pursuit of a speeding car outside the town of Socorro, New Mexico, when he was startled by a loud roar! Seconds later, he saw a large flame rise from the ground and pierce the sky above a remote patch of desert southwest of the highway. Fearing a nearby dynamite shack might have exploded, Zamora let the speeding car go, turned right, and drove down a bumpy gravel road that ran alongside the shack.

Zamora's cruiser clunked along the rocky road until he came upon a steep hill. Rising from behind the hill was a smokeless fire that glowed in a funnel of blue and orange tinted flames. The hill obscured the origin of the flames, so Zamora attempted to drive up it. His cruiser's tires slipped and swayed on the loose gravel, but after three attempts, Zamora finally made it to the top.

A shiny object, the size of a sedan, sparkled in the late afternoon sunshine about 150-200 yards from where Zamora was perched on the hilltop. At first glance, he thought it was a car overturned in an arroyo (dry creek bed), but when he drove closer, it appeared to be aluminum in color, not chrome, and oval-shaped like a football.

Zamora drove toward the object, along the hill's crest, for about 50 feet and then stopped the car. He radioed back to the sheriff's office that he would be busy checking on a wreck "down in the arroyo," and then he descended on foot down the hill toward the object.

Roooaaarrr! Zamora was startled again by a very loud rumble, not exactly like a blast but also not steady like a jet engine. It started at a low frequency, with the pitch slowly rising. The flame appeared to be coming from the underside of the object, glowing light blue on top and orange at the bottom. Zamora panicked, afraid the object was about to blow.



He ran to take cover but turned back to look at the object as he fled. He noticed a red symbol on the side, shaped like a point that was about 2 inches high and 2 inches wide. The object was smooth, a shiny white aluminum, with no visible windows or doors. There appeared to be two metal legs, slanted outward, supporting it.

Zamora sprinted to his car, hit his leg on the fender, and crashed to the ground. He got up, ran another 25 feet or so, and when he looked back again, he saw the object begin to rise.

It rose to the level of the car, then higher, about 20 to 25 feet in the air.

Zamora ran another 50 feet from his car, just over the edge of the hill, and ducked. Kneeling as close to the ground as he could, he covered his face with his arms for protection. Suddenly, the roar stopped. In the uneasy silence, Zamora lifted his head and looked.

The object sped away from him, toward the southwest, appearing to go in a straight line at about 10-15 feet off the ground. It cleared the eight foot tall dynamite shack by about three feet and then continued in a southwesterly direction, until it went over the high desert mountains and disappeared...

Hector Quintanilla, the last chief officer of the US Air Force's famous UFO investigation program, Project BLUE BOOK, was in charge of the Zamora case. His team was convinced that Zamora was telling the truth, and despite an extremely thorough investigation, they were unable to locate the object or its origins. In an article for Studies in Intelligence called, "The Investigation of UFO's," Quintanilla says that the Zamora sighting is "the best-documented case on record." It remains unsolved.

Project BLUE BOOK was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Between 1947 and 1969, the Air Force recorded 12,618 sightings of strange phenomena — 701 of which remain "unidentified" like the Zamora case. Although the CIA was not directly affiliated with Project BLUE BOOK, the Agency did play a large role in investigating UFOs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which led to the creation of several studies, panels, and programs. Former CIA Chief Historian, Gerald K. Haines, wrote an in-depth article looking at the Agency's role in studying the UFO phenomenon for Studies in Intelligence. In his article, "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90," Haines says that "while the Agency's concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s, CIA has since paid only limited and peripheral attention to the phenomena."

With over 20 years of investigations, from the late 1940s until Project BLUE BOOK's termination in 1969, the CIA and USAF have learned a thing or two about how to investigate a UFO sighting. While most government officials and scientists now dismiss flying saucer reports as a quaint relic of the 1950s and 1960s, there's still a lot that can be learned from the history and methodology of "flying saucer intelligence."

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10 Tips When Investigating a Flying Saucer:

1. Establish a Group To Investigate and Evaluate Sightings

Before December 1947, there was no specific organization tasked with the responsibility for investigating and evaluating UFO sightings. There were no standards on how to evaluate reports coming in, nor were there any measurable data points or results from controlled experiment for comparison against reported sightings.

To end the confusion, head of the Air Force Technical Service Command, General Nathan Twining, established Project SIGN (initially named Project SAUCER) in 1948 to collect, collate, evaluate, and distribute within the government all information relating to such sightings, on the premise that UFOs might be real (although not necessarily extraterrestrial) and of national security concern. Project SIGN eventually gave way to Project GRUDGE, which finally turned into Project BLUE BOOK in 1952.

2. Determine the Objectives of Your Investigation

The CIA's concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s because of the potential threat to national security from these unidentified flying objects. Most officials did not believe the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin; they were instead concerned the UFOs might be new Soviet weapons.

The Project BLUE BOOK team, according to Quintanilla, defined three main objectives for their investigations:

To determine if UFO phenomena present a threat to the security of the US;
To determine if UFO phenomena exhibit any technological advances which could be channeled into US research and development; and
To explain or identify the stimuli which caused the observer to report a UFO.
Although BLUE BOOK, like previous investigative projects on the topic, did not rule out the possibility of extraterrestrial phenomena, their research and investigations focused primarily on national security implications, especially possible Soviet technological



3. Consult With Experts

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, various projects, panels, and other studies were led or sponsored by the US government to research the UFO phenomenon. This includes the CIA-sponsored 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, also known as the "Robertson Panel." It was named after the noted physicist H.P. Robertson from the California Institute of Technology, who helped put together the distinguished panel of nonmilitary scientists to study the UFO issue.

Project BLUE BOOK also frequently consulted with outside experts, including: astrophysicists, Federal Aviation officials, pilots, the US Weather Bureau, local weather stations, academics, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA, Kodak (for photo analysis), and various laboratories (for physical specimens). Even the famous astronomer Carl Sagan took part in a panel to review Project BLUE BOOK's findings in the mid-1960s. The report from that panel concluded that "no UFO case which represented technological or scientific advances outside of a terrestrial framework" had been found, but the committee did recommend that UFOs be studied intensively to settle the issue once and for all.

4. Create a Reporting System To Organize Incoming Cases

The US Air Force's Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) developed questionnaires to be used when taking reports of possible UFO sightings, which were used throughout the duration of Project BLUE BOOK. The forms were used to provide the investigators enough information to determine what the unknown phenomenon most likely was. The duration of the sighting, the date, time, location, or position in the sky, weather conditions, and the manner of appearance or disappearance are essential clues for investigators evaluating reported UFO sightings.

Project BLUE BOOK categorized sightings according to what the team suspected they were attributable to: Astronomical (including bright stars, planets, comets, fireballs, meteors, and auroral streamers); Aircraft (propeller aircraft, jet aircraft, refueling missions, photo aircraft, advertising aircraft, helicopters); Balloons; Satellites; Other (including missiles, reflections, mirages, searchlights, birds, kites, spurious radar indications, hoaxes, fireworks, and flares); Insufficient Data; and finally, Unidentified.

According to Quintanilla, "a sighting is considered unidentified when a report apparently contains all the data necessary to suggest a valid hypothesis, but its description cannot be correlated with any known object or phenomenon."

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5. Eliminate False Positives

Eliminate each of the known and probable causes of UFO sightings, leaving a small portion of "unexplained" cases to focus on. By ruling out common explanations, investigators can focus on the truly mysterious cases.

Some common explanations for UFO sightings discovered by early investigations included: misidentified aircrafts (the U-2, A-12, and SR-71 flights accounted for more than half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s and most of the 1960s); celestial events; mass hysteria and hallucination; "war hysteria;" "midsummer madness;" hoaxes; publicity stunts; and the misinterpretation of known objects.

Even history can shed some light. An interesting citation found by the 1953 Robertson Panel noted that some sightings had been attributed to an older phenomenon – "Foo Fighters" – that pre-dated the modern concept of UFOs: "These were unexplained phenomena sighted by aircraft pilots during World War II in both European and Far East theaters of operation wherein 'balls of light' would fly near or with the aircraft and maneuver rapidly. They were believed to be electrostatic (similar to St. Elmo's fire) or electromagnetic phenomena... but their exact cause or nature was never defined. If the term 'flying saucers' had been popular in 1943-1945, these objects would have been so labeled."

6. Develop Methodology To Identify Common Aircraft and Other Aerial Phenomena Often Mistaken for UFOs

Because of the significant likelihood a common (or secret military) aircraft could be mistaken for a UFO, it's important to know the characteristics of different types of aircraft and aerial phenomenon to evaluate against each sighting. To help investigators go through the troves of reports coming in, Project BLUE BOOK developed a methodology to determine if the UFO sighting could likely be attributable to a known aircraft or aerial phenomenon. They wrote up detailed descriptions characterizing each type of aircraft or astronomical phenomenon, including how it might be mistaken for a UFO, to help investigators evaluate the incoming reports.

7. Examine Witness Documentation

Any photographs, videos, or audio recordings can be immensely helpful in evaluating a reported UFO sighting.

A famous case examined by the Robertson Panel was the "Tremonton, Utah Sighting" of 1952, where a couple and two children traveling cross-country on State Highway 30 outside of Tremonton saw what appeared to be 10-12 bright shining objects moving westward in the sky in a rough formation. The husband was able to capture some of the objects on film.

The case was considered significant because of the "excellent documentary evidence in the form of Kodachrome motion picture films (about 1600 frames)." The Panel examined the film, case history, ATIC's interpretation, and received a briefing from representatives of the USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory on their analysis of the film. The laboratory believed the objects were not birds, balloons, aircraft, or reflections, and therefore had to be "self-luminous." The panel disagreed with the assessment that the objects were self-luminous, believing that if a controlled experiment was conducted, a terrestrial explanation for the sighting would be confirmed.



8. Conduct Controlled Experiments

As suggested by the Robertson Panel for investigating the Tremonton, Utah sighting (mentioned in tip #7), controlled experiments might be required to try and replicate the unknown phenomena. In the Tremonton case, the Panel suggested an experiment where scientists would photograph "pillow balloons" at different distances under similar weather conditions at the site. They believed such an experiment could help dispel the "self-luminous" theory about the objects in the film. Unfortunately, in this case, the cost of conducting such an experiment made the idea unfeasible.



9. Gather and Test Physical and Forensic Evidence

In the Zamora case (from the introduction), Quintanilla contends that during the course of the investigation and immediately thereafter, "everything that was humanly possible to verify was checked." This included bringing in Geiger counters from Kirtland Air Force Base to test for radiation in the landing area and sending soil samples to the Air Force Materials Laboratory. "The soil analysis disclosed no foreign material. Radiation was normal for the 'tracks' and surrounding area. Laboratory analysis of the burned brush showed no chemicals that could have been propellant residue," according to Quintanilla. "The findings were all together negative." No known explanation could be found for the mysterious event.

10. Discourage False Reporting

The Robertson Panel found that the Air Force had "instituted a fine channel for receiving reports of nearly anything anyone sees in the sky and fails to understand." This is a classic example of needing to separate the "signal from the noise." If you have too many false or junk reports, it becomes increasingly difficult to find the few good ones worthy of investigation or attention.

The CIA in the early 1950s was concerned that because of the tense Cold War situation and increased Soviet capabilities, the Soviets could use UFO reports to ignite mass panic and hysteria. Even worse, the Soviets could use UFO sightings to overload the US air warning system so that it could not distinguish real targets from supposed UFOs.

In order to lessen the amount of false-positive reports, the Robertson Panel suggested educating the military, researchers, and even the public on how to identify objects or phenomena commonly mistaken for UFOs. For example, they recommended training enlisted, command, and research personnel on how to properly recognize unusually illuminated objects (like balloons or aircraft reflections), as well as natural phenomena (such as meteors, fireballs, mirages, or noctilucent "night" clouds). By knowing how to correctly recognize objects that were commonly mistaken for UFOs, investigators could quickly eliminate false reports and focus on identifying those sightings which remained unexplained.

Do you still want to believe? Then take a peek into our "X-Files."

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/how-to-investigate-a-flying-saucer.html

* All of the photographs (and document photographs) in this article are from the Socorro, New Mexico case, with the exception of the alleged UFO photograph (taken in New Jersey, 1952). Courtesy of the National Archives.


Posted: Jan 21, 2016 05:39 PM
Last Updated: Jan 21, 2016 05:39 PM

[astr0144]

Many were saying 2015 was going to be the year of disclosure..

but with Hilary, "The X Files" and now this !...

It may seem more like the possibility of it being 2016 if they were going to do it...

or maybe they are planning something related to all this like a fake UFO landing ../ suggested ET arrival asking for USA to hand in their weapons or else ! 

then they can go to their next stage of  control if all is true that they are carrying out all the plans described in the "X files" and Alex Jones for the NWO take over ...

Tell us we all have to be chipped and they have got us all..under total control.

http://news.yahoo.com/cia-releases-secret-ufo-files-including-084750091.html

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timely reveal for viewer ratings?

all beginning to smell very fishy indeed

funbox

[Dyna]

Many of the individual images i have looked at look so much like hubcaps, to bad so many want attention or i could be sure.

[space otter]

  ahh they did it for some goodwill..hummmmmmmmmmm


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cia-x-files-flying-saucer_us_56a683cee4b0404eb8f28845
01/30/2016 11:16 am ET | Updated 1 hour ago 
Lee Speigel
Reporter, The Huffington Post

Finally! CIA Releases 'X-Files' Docs, Details 'How To Investigate' UFOs
Intelligence agency posts unexpected info about flying saucers.

Getty Images/Huffington Post Illustration
 


An odd thing happened this past week involving the real CIA, some fictional FBI agents and the oft-disputed truth about this country's investigation into UFOs.

Just three days prior to the long-awaited return of "The X-Files," the Central Intelligence Agency posted two rather extraordinary items on its official site.

Under the agency's News & Information page, an article titled "Take A Peek Into Our 'X-Files'" appeared. According to the description, hundreds of formerly secret documents were declassified in 1978, "detailing the agency's investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The documents date primarily from the late 1940s and 1950s."

By latching on to the saga of Special Agents Mulder and Scully, the CIA is using the fictional FBI series in an unlikely bid for public goodwill, especially from the UFO community, a group that almost automatically accuses the government of conspiring to cover-up the truth.

As the CIA says on its site:


To help navigate the vast amount of data contained in our FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] UFO collection, we've decided to highlight a few documents both skeptics and believers will find interesting. ... You will find five documents we think 'X-Files' character Agent Mulder would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of extraterrestrial activity. We also pulled five documents we think his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use to prove there is a scientific explanation for UFO sightings.

The truth is out there; click on the links to find it.

Readers can then pour through a collection of documents running the gamut between flying saucer reports, official memos and advisory panel reports from the 1950s.

As if that weren't enough, the CIA ends the page with "Do you want to believe? Then find out how to investigate a flying saucer." Off you go to the next lengthy treatment that begins with a re-telling of a famous 1964 UFO close encounter, in which a New Mexico police officer reports seeing a football-shaped craft on the ground.

In the report description, the CIA describes the account of officer Lonnie Zamora outside of Socorro, New Mexico. The CIA quotes Air Force Maj. Hector Quintanilla -- the last chief officer of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's long-term UFO investigation -- who was in charge of the Socorro case. According to the new CIA X-File, Quintanilla said this was "the best documented case on record." The CIA adds that the Zamora incident "remains unsolved."

The introduction to the document doesn't mention the most extraordinary part of the sighting: According to the initial report, "two persons in apparent white coveralls" appeared near the strange flying object and eventually disappeared, presumably entering the object before it rose up and sped away. See an image of the original FBI teletype below.



FBI


In addition to the Socorro report, the CIA posts the following instructions:


10 Tips When Investigating A Flying Saucer:

1. Establish a Group To Investigate and Evaluate Sightings

2. Determine the Objectives of Your Investigation

3. Consult With Experts

4. Create a Reporting System To Organize Incoming Cases

5. Eliminate False Positives

6. Develop Methodology To Identify Common Aircraft and Other Aerial Phenomena Often Mistaken for UFOs

7. Examine Witness Documentation

8. Conduct Controlled Experiments

9. Gather and Test Physical and Forensic Evidence

10. Discourage False Reporting

In item #5 (above), the CIA cites a 1998 report that suggests how "some common explanations for UFO sightings...included misidentified aircrafts (the U-2, A-12 and SR-71 flights accounted for more than half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s and most of the 1960s)."

It's not that we're nit-picking the fact that the CIA referred (above) to more than one aircraft as "aircrafts" -- but UFO researchers are questioning the accuracy of that 1998 assessment about UFO sightings mistaken for U-2 flights.

Bruce Maccabee, a retired Navy optical physicist, and UFO researcher, is one who questions the U-2's role in the frequency of UFO sightings.

"Their claim is straightforward, that, once the U-2 started flying, more than 50 percent of UFO sightings were actually of the high-flying U-2 (spy aircraft). But if you look at the actual statistics, the number of sightings reported per month, for three years before and after, you find there's no big increase as a result of the U-2 flights," Maccabee, author of "The FBI-CIA-UFO Connection," told The Huffington Post.

"Oddly enough, according to the official government's Condon report statistics, there were 430 [UFO] sightings in 10 months before the U-2 started flying, and 430 during the 10 months after. That astonished me as much as anybody else. To claim that more than 50 percent of sightings [were reported] after the U-2 started flying, is a complete canard."

The Condon report that Maccabee refers to was the University of Colorado UFO Project, funded by the Air Force in the late 1960s to evaluate UFOs. The director of the study, physicist Edward Condon, concluded that there was nothing of scientific interest to warrant any further examination of UFOs.

The following video shows several top secret aircraft that may have been occasionally mistaken for UFOs:


During a four-decade Naval career, Maccabee, pictured below, worked on control systems as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative and Ballistic Missile Defense, using high power lasers.

"My work for the Navy had nothing to do with UFOs. I wasn't employed by the CIA or the FBI, and all of my UFO case analyses were carried out on my own time. Everything I did regarding UFO investigations, analyses, historical research, etc. was unclassified," Maccabee said.



Jan Maccabee


Maccabee maintains that none of his Navy superiors ever suggested he tone down his UFO research. "They said they didn't care what I did in my spare time, 'but just leave the Navy lab out of it.' From that point on, Maccabee relied on his skills in optical data processing when he was asked to analyze the visual components of UFO cases.

"There are things I did that a few other people could have done, I suppose, because of the required knowledge. Aside from having an ability to interview people -- listening to what they say and deduce stuff from it -- I had to be both a historian and a physicist." 

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I assume no one actually went and LOOKED at the links I provided to the actual files

Because there are several hundred case files on 13 pages

UFOs: Fact or Fiction?

This collection catalogues CIA information on this subject from the 1940s through the early 1990s. Most of the documents concern CIA cables reporting unsubstantiated UFO sightings in the foreign press and intra-Agency memos about how the Agency handled public inquiries about UFO sightings. For the most recent CIA information on UFOs, see the article "CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90" at the Center for the Study of Intelligence website (https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/index.html). The article is located in On-line Publications under the "Studies in Intelligence" section, specifically semi-annual Edition #1, 1997.

http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/ufos-fact-or-fiction

I am still downloading them

Where is Karl12 when you need him?

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/7-of-the-most-surreal-ufo-documents-from-the-cia-archive/ar-BBoPlcA
Tech Insider
Chris Weller
3 days ago

7 of the most surreal UFO documents from the CIA archive

Nearly 40 years ago, the CIA declassified a mountain of documents related to UFO sightings.
What  !!!! 40 yrs...

Now that "The X-Files" has been revived as a miniseries, the CIA decided to resurface those files. Many of them trace back to the early 1950s, at a time when political tensions were still frozen over and flying objects were seen as national security threats.

Here are some of the most interesting.


A memo on national security and the 'vulnerability to air attack' from flying saucers
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On October 2, 1952, the Assistant Director in the Office of Scientific Intelligence sent a memo to the Director of the entire CIA with the subject "Flying Saucers."

As the AD wrote, "'Flying saucers' pose two elements of danger which have national security implications. The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns the vulnerability of the United States to air attack."

The AD recommended more research be conducted to explore the "implications of the 'flying saucer' problem."

(If you listen closely enough, you can almost hear them typing the word "drones" decades ahead of time.)

Uzbekistan's mysterious light show


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The late 1940s in the Uzbekistan capital city of Tashkent saw more unidentified light shows than it could count.

"From May to September 1947," a CIA information report reads, "three light phenomena happening at intervals of about 15 minutes were seen almost every night between 9 and 10 p.m. local time." At its highest point, the light seemed to be roughly a fifth the diameter of a full moon.

As the report details, the light always began as a bright red ball. Within seconds it would grow a fiery tail and then morph into a green, then white, mass.

"Smoke trails, noises, or detonations were not noticed."

Fiery disks looming over Belgian uranium mines


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A daily newspaper in Vienna, of all publications, reported on a peculiar sighting of "two fiery disks" hovering over uranium mines in mid-August, 1952.

As the report explains, the two objects supposedly tore through the airspace in a highly erratic fashion. At one point they would be soaring vertically away from the onlookers, and the next they'd be diving down "to within 20 meters of the tree tops."

Commander Pierre of the local airfield took off in his own fighter plane to wrangle the unknown aircraft. However, "Pierre had to give up pursuit after 15 minutes since both disks, with a loud whistling sound which he heard despite the noise of his own plane, disappeared in a straight line toward Lake Tanganyika."

Pierre later estimated the disks were traveling more than 900 miles per hour.

The East German flying saucers of 1952

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The CIA published this internal document reporting on one German man's fantastic account of a 45-foot-wide disk he spotted in a forest when his motorcycle broke down.

Accompanied by his 11-year-old daughter, the man approached the strange-looking object to find two men in "shiny metallic clothing" kneeling over the disk, which had a cone-shaped capsule on top.

Once the two men realized they were being watched, the man says, they hopped into the capsule and the disk began to leave the ground. Eventually, it rose high above the trees and took off.

"I had never heard of the term 'flying saucer' before I escaped from the Soviet Union into West Berlin," the man later said. "When I saw this object, I immediately thought it was a new Soviet military machine."

Flying objects passing over Casablanca

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In early September 1952, multiple sightings were reported of various UFOs over Casablanca, Morocco. The town made famous in the 1942 film of the same name saw two flying saucers that were "elongated in shape" and "followed by a trail of white light."

On a separate occasion in July, two other people reported seeing a "blue-green, ball-shaped object" just before midnight "moving at a high rate of speed." The mysterious object disappeared after only three or four seconds, however, "as though it had literally melted into the sky."

The very next morning, another couple observed a mysterious object around 9 a.m. for roughly 30 seconds. Several more accounts, all with differing details, emerged that summer.

Three Norwegian guys walk into a forest...

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In mid-November 1952, three men working in a forest in Kirkenes, Norway spotted a flat, round object just hovering roughly 1,500 feet in the air.

"The object appeared to have a diameter of 15-20 meters (50-65 feet)," the CIA report stated. "After the workers had observed the object for a while, it suddenly flew away at great speed in a northwesternly direction."

They were the only people who reported seeing the object, unfortunately for them. "They swear, however, that their report is true."

The CIA begins to have its doubts

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With all these reports coming in, it didn't take long for the CIA to get suspicious. In August 1952 (keep in mind, still two months ahead of its memo on those two national security concerns), the Deputy Assistant Director of the Scientific Intelligence office released a memo discounting the threat posed by UFOs.

"Of 1000 to 2000 such reports received by ATIC (Air Technical Intelligence Center), a large percentage are clearly 'phoney,'" the report reads. In fact, many of the reported flights were easily explained as known missions using US equipment, the report went on.

Owing to the agency's uncertainty, however, the Deputy AD recommended CIA surveillance continue on the mysterious "flying saucers" under the cover of darkness.

"It is strongly urged ... that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public," the report read, "in view of their probable alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as 'confirmatory' of the soundness of 'unpublished facts' in the hands of the U.S. government."

[larishira]

Hey!! it's been a while.....but...sorry my word...WTF?? CIA ...X-Files?

When i saw the first episode of season 10....its kind a flashback on my head...because i already know all this things....
Actually...in a scene,...Mulder touched the RVA..put the hand it.....really....just give the credit ...when bob lazar told john lear...the first contact....its like...the same....also the place in area 51.....115 element....
its like they watched project camelot....and ok....episode 1,...

really scares me...but NOTHING COMPARE WHAT CIA DID....

They just prove everything that i wanted to know...and most i fear..... we're done here.....

[zorgon]

What  !!!! 40 yrs...

Yes most of the files released have been available for a very long time. Most serious researchers have had them 'forever'

I have many times over the years provide dirct links to them but people don't like to look. They prefer to ignore them so their cry of "The Government bever releases files and is lying to us!!" stays valid

The other factor is FEAR  People are afraid to go look at places like CIA and FBI headquarters (yes they DO track that you visited )

For example DTIC DOT MIL   the military data base is full of interesting file on projects people still think are secret but have been in public domain a very long time

One file re:UFO's  WARNING for the Chickens it IS a dot mil site  but they don't bite

CIAs Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a525986.pdf

And this one by Thomas Bearden

A Mind/Brain/Matter Model Consistent with Quantum Physics and UFO phenomena
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a525986.pdf

And THIS one

UFOs: What to Do?


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UNCLASSIFIED AD NUMBER ADB223765 NEW LIMITATION CHANGE TO Approved for public release, distribution unlimited FROM Distribution: DTIC users only. AUTHORITY RAND, ltr 21 Jun 2000, Publications Dept, Santa Monica, CA THIS PAGE IS UNCLASSIFIED
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UFOs: What to Do? George Kocher DRU-1571 Originally published November 1968 ".DTIC USERS ONLY" rDTXC QUAI~r LM 'F 19970423 143 This document is unreviewed and unedited. Views and conclusions expressed herein are tentative and do not necessarily represent the policies or opinions of RAND RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve public policy through research and analysis. RAND's publications and drafts do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of its research sponsors.
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PREFACE This paper was originally produced as an internal document; it was not prepared for or delivered to any of RAND's clients. Peer review has not been undertaken, nor has it been edited or prepared for publication. It is being released at this time as a matter of public interest.
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ii CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................. .......................... 1 Part 1: UFO's: Historical Aspects ........ ........... 2 Part 2: UFO's: Astronomical Aspects ........ .......... 8 Part 3: UFO's: The Character of Reports ... ........ .. 12 Part 4: UFO's: Phenomenological Aspects ... ........ .. 24 Part 5: UFO's: How to Proceed and Why ... ......... .. 29 A REPORT FORM ................ ............... ........ 33 BIBLIOGRAPHY .................. ......................... 140
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-1- INTRODUCTION Common sense is the quintessence of the experiences and prejudices of its time. It is a most unreliable advisor when one is confronted with a perfectly new situation. Gustav Naan UFOs -- unidentified flying objects, or flying saucers as they are often called -- have been on the mind of the public for at least the last 22 years. For a number of reasons, we know little more about them now than we did at the outset. There exists a great amount of misinformation about the phenomenon not only in the minds of the public, but among educated groups such as scientists as well. It is the pur- pose of this series of essays to describe various aspects of the phe- nomenon, make clear my prejudices and the reasons for them, and to sug- gest a means of proceeding on this interesting and potentially very significant problem. But first, a few words about the term UFO. J. A. Hynek, an astron- omer having continuous involvement with UFO study for over 20 years, de- fines UFOs as "any reported aerial or surface visual sighting or radar return which remains unexplained by conventional means even after exam- ination by competent persons. This definition. .. specifies neither fly- ing nor objects."( 1 ) I would agree, but would prefer to replace "or radar return" with "or instrumental observation" and "even after exami- nation by competent persons" to "even after competent examination by qualified persons." This, then, is the definition I have adopted in the five essays that follow.
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-2- PART 1: UFOs -- HISTORICAL ASPECTS A / Copyrighted artwork removed N. I r' Those familiar with the UFO literature are aware that reports of sightings did not begin with Arnold's sighting in 1947, but that phe- nomenology much the same as is reported today can be found in documents going back to the earliest times. Vallee 2) gives a sampling of this; B.L.P. Trench 3) has made a more thorough study and reports on the re- search of others able to study the original documents. %hat was reported? Luminous discs, shields, globes and elongated objects in the sky, sometimes alone, sometimes in large numbers. Oc- casional descriptions of interactions with the observers are also men- tioned, including landings, and seeing and communicating with occupants. The latter events especially were almost always interpreted in a re- ligious context. A recent example is the repeated appearance of a typical UFO phenomenology at Fatima, Portugal on six successive months in 1917. The October 13 phenomenon was the best reported and was witnessed by a crowd of about 70,000 persons, including a number of scientists, reporters, atheists, and agnostics, as well as faithful Catholics. One of the scientifically curious was Dr. A. Garrett of the University of Coimbra. Rain, which had been falling that day, ceased and the crowd looked up to see the "sun" now visible through the heavy clouds. Professor Garrett wrote, "...I turned toward this (sun) which was attracting all eyes and I could see it like a disk with a clear cut edge, with a vivid rim, luminous and shining, but without hurting one. The comparison I have heard at Fatima with a disk of dull silver, does
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-3- not seem to me exact. It was a clearer, more vivid, richer color and with shifting tints like the luster of a pearl. It was not at all like the moon on a clear transparent night, for one saw and felt it like a living star. Nor was it spherical like the moon, nor did it have the same quality of lighter and less light. It looked like a burnished wheel cut out of mother-of-pearl. Nor could it be confused with the sun seen through a fog -- there was no fog... This disc spun dizzily round. It was not the twinkling of a star: it whirled round upon it- self with mad rapidity... The sun, preserving the celerity of its ro- tation, detached itself from the firmament and advanced, blood-red, towards the earth, threatening to crush us with the weight of its vast and fiery mass. These moments made a terrifying impression." (4) The relationship of the old phenomenology to religion are discussed by Thomas.(5) An example of earlier celestial displays of interest is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. These are broadsheets from Nuremberg (1561) and Basel (1566), respectively. The psychologist, C. G. Jung, provides an analy- sis of the contents of the woodcuts in his interesting book.(6)" Reference 7 has a very interesting reproduction of a fourteenth century fresco in a Yugoslavian church. The modern period of the phenomenon began with a widely publicized sighting made by Kenneth Arnold in Washington state in 1947. A study by Bloecher of north american reports over the four week period bracket- ing the Arnold sighting lists 853 events, including 38 sightings made before Arnold's heavily publicized sighting.( Because the early reports seemed to suggest airborne craft of un- usual appearance and kinematics, the problem came to rest with the newly organized U.S. Air Force. Initial fears were that the country was being overflown by advanced foreign aircraft, possibly on intelli- gence missions. The latter was suggested by the large number of sight- ings from the White Sands, New Mexico area and from the vicinity of the Hanford, Washington atomic plant. Serious inquiry proceeded for a few years without any positive re- sults. A number of supposedly knowledgeable people spoke out pointing out the sporadic nature of the sightings, and that since the reported
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'-4- Copyrighted artwork removed Fig. 1 -- Nuremberg Broadsheet, 1561 Copyrighted artwork removed Fig. 2 -- Basel Broadsheet, 1566 Both Broadsheets from the Wickiana Collection, Zurich Central Library
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-5- kinematics were inconsistent with current physical theory, the UFOs were not likely to be from a foreign power. Further, they argued, no other planets in our solar system were believed to support life -- cer- tainly not intelligent life -- and since even the nearest star was over four light years away, the hypothesis of extraterrestrial origin was (9) simply unacceptable from the scientific point of view. The Air Force investigative effort worked as follows:(10) When- ever a sighting was made, a report was to be made out and turned in to the Air Force at base level. The report was forwarded to Wright-Patter- son AFB, Ohio for study. If the report was interesting enough, follow- up inquiry was made. By 1952 the number of reports coming in was so large that the CIA was concerned that an actual attack on the country might not be immediately recognized. A panel of scientists was then convened in January 1953 to study the available evidence and see what conclusion could be reached about UFOs. After seven days of hearing evidence and discussing the matter it was concluded that there was only circumstantial evidence of the extraterrestrial hypothesis. The panel recommended a broadened study effort with full disclosure of investi- gations. In order to unplug the military intelligence channels, how- ever, the CIA recommended that, since the UFOs apparently posed no threat, the Air Force should debunk UFO reports and try generally to discourage public interest in them, in the hope that they would go away. (11) It was the CIA's recommendation, apparently, that was made policy, for the investigative procedures used since 1953 have been vestigal and the handling of the subject by the authorities tended to make witnesses look ridiculus. In spite of the unfavorable publicity accorded witnesses, reports persisted, and no doubt in response to official behavior sev- eral civilian study groups were formed to receive reports and investi- gate sightings.

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/b223765.pdf

[zorgon]

The TRUTH has always been out there

But people just never want to go look

[space otter]

I do agree that most folks  don't want to look stuff up.
and
that folks don't want the gov knowing they looked..

and I think you can add at least one more
most folk don't think the gov would tell the truth and put anything worth while out there to see
so why bother

BUT
what they don't get is that there is always a grain of  something there
you might now find that little piece except in hind sight

like doing a cross word puzzle..one across might get you the clue to 1 thur  5 down..

sigh

I guess that's why they show up here..less work & more stuff