by Dan Wright
49. Doc # 0000015415, memorandum from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, for the Director, National Photographic Interpretation Center, “Reported Photography of Unidentified Flying Objects,” October 29, 1958.
50. Doc # 0000015320, unsigned letter from F. M. Chapin, CIA director's office, to George Popowitch, UFO Research Committee, December 2, 1958.
51. Doc # 0000015495, Teletyped Information Report (to/from redacted), “Unidentified Flying Object Observed in the Sky,” December 11, 1958.
52. Doc # 0000015321, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Larry W. Bryant, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, December 17, 1958.
53. David M. Jacobs, The UFO Controversy in America (New York: New American Library, 1975), p. 119.
54. NICAP, “UFO Casebook: 1958,” (n.d.): www.nicap.org.
55. NICAP, “UFO Casebook: 1958”; see also Think About It, “1958: May alien UFO sightings,” 2017, www.thinkaboutitdocs.com.
56. NICAP, “UFO Casebook: 1958.”
57. Project 1947 (n.d.), www.project1947.com.
58. Jan Aldrich, www.nicap.org.
59. NICAP, “UFO Casebook: 1958.”
60. NICAP, “UFO Casebook: 1958”; Patrick Gross, “Project Blue Book unexplained cases summaries with witness names: Year 1958”: www.ufologie.patrickgross.org.
61. NICAP, “The Monon RR UFO Incident” (n.d.): www.nicap.org.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid.
Chapter 12 1959: Same Cast of Characters
1. Doc # 0000015416, memorandum from (redacted) to Assistant to the Director, “Inquiry by Major Donald E. Keyhoe,” January 22, 1959.
2. Doc # 0000015322, letter from J. S. Earman, Executive Officer, to Donald Keyhoe, USMC (Retired), January 27, 1959.
3. Doc # 0000015323, letter from John S. Earman, Executive Officer, to George Popowitch, The Unidentified Flying Objects Research Committee, February 6, 1959.
4. Doc # 0000015486, Official Routing Slip from (redacted) to Frank Chapin, February 6, 1959.
5. Doc # CIA-RDP80B01676R004000110015-2, letter from Frank Chapin, Assistant to the Director, to Fred A. Kirsch, UFO Research Committee, February 18, 1959.
6. Doc # CIA-RDP80R01731R000300040016-2, letter from Richard Ogden to Allen Dulles, CIA Director, February 22, 1959.
7. Doc # 0000015324, letter from J. S. Earman, Executive Officer, to Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Retired), March 5, 1959. See also Doc # 0000015306.
8. Doc # 0000015446, FDD (Foundation for Defense of Democracies) note by (redacted), “Flying Saucers Seen Over Sweden,” citing a news article from the January 20, 1959, Stockholms-Tidningen, “Eight Persons Saw Flying Saucer,” (“March '59” handwritten).
9. Doc # 0005516086, FDD Note, “Unusual UFOB Report,” March 1959.
10. Doc # CIA-RDP9100965R000400050014-7, Journal, Office of Legislative Counsel, May 28, 1959.
11. Doc # 0000015326, letter from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI to George Wyllie, June 30, 1959.
12. Doc # CIA-RDP80R01731R000300010089-5, letter from (redacted—Frank Chapin), Assistant to the Director, to Major L. J. Tacker, Secretary of the Air Force, Information Service, July 30, 1959, with buckslip to (redacted).
13. Doc # 0000015487, Official Routing Slip, from (redacted), Chief (illegible), to Assistant to the Director, October 2, 1959.
14. Doc # 0000015252, Information Report, by (redacted), “Possible Unidentified Flying Object,” October 22, 1959.
15. Doc # CIA-RDP80R01731R000300010057-0, letter from Assistant to the Director to C. H. Marek Jr., November 10, 1959.
16. Doc # 0000015327, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Dr. Thornton Page, Wesleyan University, November 25, 1959.
17. Doc # 0000015328, letter from Alnora Belt, secretary to Philip Strong, December 10, 1959.
18. Above Top Secret, “A quote from Werner von Braun” (posted October 25, 2005): www.abovetopsecret.com.
19. Lorenzen and Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story.
20. Jacques Vallee, “Vallee classification system” (2011), www.ufoevidence.org.
21. See “UFO Evidence,” www.ufoevidence.org; Clark, The UFO Book.
22. NICAP, “UFO Casebook: 1959” (n.d.), www.nicap.org.
23. Ibid.
24. Sightings Archive, “Huge UFO Sighted—1959, USAF SAC Base, Goose Bay, Labrador, www.sightings.com.
25. NICAP, “UFO Casebook: 1959.”
26. John E. Bortle, “The Bright-Comet Chronicles,” 1998, available at www.icq.eps.harvard.edu.
27. NICAP, “UFO Casebook: 1959.”
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Good, Need to Know.
Chapter 13 1960: What's This All About?
1. Doc # 0000015417, non-sourced instruction sheet, anonymous, “Guidance to UFO Photographers,” January 1, 1960 (approximate).
2. Wikipedia, “Film speed,” updated November 8, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
3. Doc # 0000015418, instructions, anonymous, “UFO Photographic Information Sheet,” January 5, 1960.
4. Doc # 0000015419, Office Memorandum, from W. E. Lexow, Chief, OSI Applied Science Division, to Deputy Assistant Director, OSI Collection, “Flying Saucers—Student Papers Thereon Received from Dr. Thornton Page,” January 26, 1960.
5. Doc # CIA-RDP6800046R000200090030-6, news article, Fairmont (WV) Times-West Virginian (UPI), “Air Force Says Unidentified Flying Objects Are ‘Serious’,” February 28, 1960.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Doc # CIA-RDP6800046R000200090029-8, editorial, (source stated only as Telegram), “Another Jab at the Air Force,” February 29, 1960.
9. Doc # CIA-RDP6800046R000200090027-0, news article, Journal (city not shown), “Flying Saucer Alert,” March 4, 1960.
10. Doc # 0000015253, Information Report, (to/from redacted), “Rumored Unidentified Flying Objects in the Sary Ozek Region,” March 9, 1960 (handwritten).
11. Doc # 0000015447, FDD Note, anonymous, “UFO's Sighted, Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen,” March 17, 1960.
12. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090024-3, news article, Hartford Times, “UFO's—Visitors from Space? Food for Future Thought,” June 9, 1960.
13. Ibid.
14. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090025-2, news article, Worcester (MA) Evening Gazette, “Ex-C.I.A. Chief Wants UFO Probe,” June 12, 1960.
15. Ibid.
16. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100040013-4, News Release, Department of Defense, Office of Public Affairs, “Fact Sheet Air Force UFO Report,” July 21, 1960.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090023-4, news article, Chicago Daily News, “Hill Group Eyes ‘Flying Saucers,’” August 5, 1960.
21. Doc # 0005516055, memorandum from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to G. L. Cary, Deputy Assistant Director for Collection, “Reply to Your Note Regarding Gordon H. Scherer,” August 31, 1960.
22. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100040011-6, “Reply to Your Note Regarding Gordon H. Scherer,” August 31, 1960.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Doc # 0000015330, letter from John S. Warner, Legislative Counsel, to Coral Lorenzen, International Director, Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, December 13, 1960.
26. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090022-5, news article, Worcester (MA) Evening Gazette, “Inquiry into UFOs Still Held Needed,” December 15, 1960.
27. Ibid.
28. Doc # 0005516056, memorandum from the Chief, Detroit Office, to (illegible), “Sighting of Unusual Object,” December 16, 1960.
29. Clark, The UFO Book, pp. 508–509.
Chapter 14 1961: Old News
1. Doc # 0000015331, letter from Brig. Gen. Philip G. Strong (Retired) to Lt. Colonel Lawrence J. Tacker, USAF Office of Information, January 10, 1961.
2. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090019-9, news article, Worcester (MA) Evening Gazette, �
��McCormack Asks Hearing on UFOs,” February 16, 1961.
3. UFO Evidence, “Congressional Hearings on UFOs,” 2011, available at www.ufoevidence.org.
4. Doc # 0000015332, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Robert J. Palmer, The Americana Institute, April 5, 1961.
5. Doc # 0000015492, Congressional Correspondence (routing slip), from Legislative Counsel Lawrence Houston to (unnamed) “Exec” and (illegible), June 4, 1961; see also Doc # 0000015333 and related files.
6. Doc # 0005515877, letter from Lawrence E. Houston, CIA General Counsel, to Congressman Joseph Karth, post-June 30, 1961.
7. Ibid.
8. Doc # 0000015488, Official Routing Slip, from (illegible) to the Legislative Counsel, July 5, 1961; see also Doc # 0000015492.
9. Doc # 0000015423, letter from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI to the Legislative Counsel, “Reply to the Honorable Joseph E. Karth,” July 12, 1961.
10. Doc # 0000015333, letter from Lawrence R. Houston, General Counsel, to Congressman Joseph E. Karth, (post-7/12/61—log date incorrect).
11. Doc # CIA-RDP79T00936A000200260001-6, The White House, Outgoing Message, September 11, 1961.
12. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090014-4, news article, Roanoke (VA) World-News, “Congress Is Being Pressed for Flying Saucer Probe,” October 23, 1961.
13. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090017-1, editorial, Bangor (ME) News, “Mystery Makes Life More Interesting,” November 17, 1961.
14. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
15. Clark, The UFO Book.
Chapter 15 1962: Blinders
1. Doc # 0005516059, memorandum from Philip Strong, Deputy Assistant Director, to USAF Hq, “Transmittal of Letter from Thomas B. Scott,” April 23, 1962.
2. Doc # 0000015254, anonymous, non-sourced multi-topic report from Argentina, May 25, 1962.
3. Ibid.
4. Good, Need to Know; Clark, The UFO Book.
5. Good, Need to Know, p. 247.
6. Ibid.
7. Lorenzen and Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story.
Chapter 16 1963: Cooper Spills the Beans
1. Doc # CIA-RDP6800046R000200090008-1, letter to editor, Hartford (CT) Courant, “Aerial Phenomena,” May 2, 1963.
2. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, pp. 72–73.
Chapter 17 1964: From a Lull to a Quickening
1. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0, 195 pages, publication, National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), “The UFO Evidence,” January 1, 1964.
2. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460035-3, news article, Passaic (NJ) Herald-News, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” January 22, 1964.
3. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460034-4, letter to editor, Atlanta Constitution, “An Earthly Explanation? CIA Must Have Brainwashed You,” March 3, 1964.
4. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460033-5, letter to editor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, “If You See an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Land Here—Dial CD” (presumably Civil Defense), March 16, 1964.
5. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460032-6, letter to editor, Amarillo Globe-Times, “People Are Talking about . . . Little Green Men,” April 27, 1964; see also Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R00400460033-5.
6. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460031-7, letter to editor, Dayton (OH) News, “Unidentified Flying Objects Kept under Cover Officially,” April 30, 1964; see also Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R00400460033-5.
7. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R0004000460030-8, letter to editor, Binghamton (NY) Sun-Bulletin, “Space tests branded as propaganda,” May 13, 1964; see also Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R00400460033-5.
8. Doc # 0005516023, non-sourced handwritten notes by (redacted), January 19, 1965; see also Doc # 0005516109.
9. Good, Need to Know.
10. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
11. John Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, published by GEO Graphics, La Porte, TX, 1996.
Chapter 18 1965: A Gathering Storm
1. Doc # CIA-RDP80B01676R001500060109-2, Memorandum for the Record by (redacted), January 18, 1965.
2. Doc # 0000015426, memorandum from (redacted), Chief, (redacted), to the Chief, Contact Division, “National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP),” January 25, 1965.
3. Doc # 0000015425, memorandum from Donald F. Chamberlain, OSI Deputy Director, for the CIA Director, “Evaluation of UFO's,” January 26, 1965.
4. Doc # 0000015427, memorandum from Donald F. Chamberlain, OSI Deputy Director, for the Assistant Director for Special Activities, February 11, 1965.
5. Doc # CIA-RDP69B00596R000100190086-2, letter from (redacted), NICAP, to CIA Director John McCone, February 26, 1965.
6. Doc # 0000015255, non-sourced report from Argentina, post-July 6, 1965.
7. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090003-6, letter to editor, Hartford Courant, “Let's Get the Facts about the UFOs,” July 26, 1965.
8. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
9. Good, Need to Know.
10. Story, The Encyclopedia of UFOs.
11. Good, Need to Know, p. 253.
12. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
13. Story, The Encyclopedia of UFOs.
14. John G. Fuller, “Incident at Exeter” (New York: Berkley Books, 1978); Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters.
15. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, pp. 568–570.
16. Lorenzen and Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story; George Fawcett, “What We Have Learned from UFO Repetitions,” MUFON 1985 UFO Symposium Proceedings.
17. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters.
Chapter 19 1966: All Hell Breaks Loose
1. Berliner, The Blue Book Unknowns.
2. Doc # CIA-RDP73-00475R000100150001-0, news article, New York Journal-American, “Boomerang Feared in ‘Saucer’ Probe,” March 30, 1966.
3. Doc # CIA-RDP88-01365R000300080004-5, letter from (redacted), to Jerry Fairbanks Productions, Hollywood, CA, April 12, 1966.
4. Doc # 0005517743, CIA report (heavily redacted), “Exploitation of Metallic Fragment from Unidentified Flying Object,” May 4, 1966.
5. Doc # 0005515698, Information Report by (redacted), “Sighting of Unusual Phenomenon on Horizon Near Iranian/USSR Border,” September 18, 1966.
6. Doc # 0000098713, teletyped message, Moscow ITAR-TASS World Service, “Lithuania—Police Officers Spot UFO; Rapid Reaction Force Alerted,” June 26, 1966 (log date incorrect).
7. Doc # 0000015428, memorandum from David B. Stevenson, OSI, for Chief, OSI Defensive Systems Division, “Air Force Request to Declassify an OSI Paper on UFO's,” July 20, 1966.
8. Doc # CIA-RDP81-R00560R000100010009-2, news article, Hammond (LA) Sunday Star, “Flying Saucers Again: Do You Believe in Them?” August 7, 1966.
9. Doc # 0000015334, letter from Karl Weber, OSI Deputy Director, to USAF Col. Gerald Jorgensen, Chief, Community Relations Division, Office of Information, August 16, 1966.
10. Doc # 0000015431, draft memo from Walter L. Mackey, Executive Officer, for the CIA Director, “Air Force Request to Declassify CIA Material on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO),” September 1, 1966.
11. Doc # 0000015430, Memorandum for Record, by David B. Stevenson, “Air Force Request to Declassify CIA UFO Report,” August 23, 1966.
12. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100040001-7 (identical to Doc # 0000015431), memorandum from the Executive Officer, for the Director of Central Intelligence, “Air Force Request to Declassify CIA Material on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO),” September 1, 1966.
13. Identical to Doc # 0000015429, “Air Force Request to Declassify CIA UFO report,” from D. B. Stevenson, August 11, 1966.
14. Doc # CIA-RDP81-R00560R000100010003-8, magazine article, Look, “Aboard a Flying Saucer,” by John G. Fuller, October 4, 1966.
15. Doc # CIA-RDP71B00364R000500220018-0, Journal, Office of Legislative Counsel, by (redacted), October 7, 1966.
16. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000100910003-1, (publisher unknown) news article, “National
U.F.O. Probe Slated,” October 7, 1966.
17. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00001R000200450001-6, news article, Arizona Republic, “UFO Hush Blamed on CIA Men,” October 7, 1966.
18. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000100910004-0, news article, The New York Times, “Campus Engaged for Saucer Study,” October 7, 1966. See also page 189.
19. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000500070006-7, news article, Baltimore Sun, “‘Debunking’ Charged on UFO Stories,” October 8, 1966.
20. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000500070008-5, news article, Chicago Daily News, “Air Force Probe of UFOs Called ‘Scientific Scandal’,” October 8, 1966.
21. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000100910001-3, news article, Washington Star, “Fearless Physicist Tackles Mystery of UFOs,” October 9, 1966.
22. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000500070005-8, news article, Los Angeles Times, “UFO Reports Throttled by CIA, Physicist Says,” October 9, 1966.
23. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, pp. 435–437.
24. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000500070005-8, news article, Los Angeles Times, “UFO Reports Throttled by CIA, Physicist Says,” October 9, 1966.
25. Doc # CIA-RDP80B01675R001800080054-7, Memorandum for the Record, by L. K. White, (title redacted), “Morning Meeting of 12 October 1966,” (principals redacted).
26. Doc # CIA-RDP79B00314A000300010030-5, Memorandum for the Record, by (redacted), Deputy Director of Research and Development, “Meeting with Drs. Price, Sander, Savely, and Finch of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) on 28 October 1966,” October 29, 1966.
27. Doc # CIA-RDP78T05929A002200090006-2, news article, Chicago Daily News, “UFO Spaceman ‘Conversed’ without Words,” November 4, 1966.
28. Doc # 0000015335, letter from (redacted) to an Auburn, WA, resident, December 7, 1966.
29. Doc # CIA-RDP75-00149R000700390033-0, Radio TV Reports, memorandum from (not shown) for Public Affairs Staff, “Joe Pyne Show”—WAVA Radio, Washington, D.C., December 23, 1966, 10:00 a.m.
30. Story, The Encyclopedia of UFOs.
