by Dan Wright
31. Doc # 0000015481, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,” distributed October 25, 1954.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Doc # 0000015482, IFDRB, “Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects,” July–September 1954, distributed October 29, 1954.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Computer UFO Network, “JANAP 146(C) Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Airborne and Waterborne Sources—10 March 1954,” available at www.cufon.org.
42. UFO Research Network, http://uforesearchnetwork.proboards.com.
43. Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, May 1989.
44. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
45. Wikipedia, “List of reported UFO sightings,” updated December 11, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Good, Need to Know, pp. 154–155.
50. Ibid., p. 207.
Chapter 8 1955: The Ham Radio Flap
1. Doc # 0005515984, memorandum from (illegible), Deputy Chief, OSI Support Staff, to Chief, Contact Division, Office of Operations (OO), “Unusual Wire Recording,” February 25, 1955.
2. Doc # 0000015371, untitled memo from the Chief, Contact Division, to the Chief, Chicago Office, “New Case (redacted)—Radio Code Recording,” March 4, 1955.
3. Doc # 0000015372, untitled memo from the Chief, Contact Division, to (illegible), OSI, “Radio Code Recording—Case (redacted),” March 17, 1955.
4. Doc # 0005515987, memorandum from the Chief, P&E Division, to the Chief, OO Contact Division, “Radio Recording,” April 6, 1955.
5. The Project Blue Book Archive, “Special Report 14,” available at www.ufocasebook.com.
6. Battelle website, 2017, www.battelle.org.
7. Project Blue Book archive, “Special Report 14.”
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Clark, The UFO Book, pp. 482-486.
13. Doc # 0000015374, memorandum from Todos Odarenko, Chief, P&E Division, to the Acting Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, “Unusual UFOB Report,” July 12, 1955.
14. Doc # 0000015375, Office Memorandum from the Chief, P&E Division, to the OSI Acting Assistant Director, “Responsibility for ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’ (UFOBs),” August 8, 1955.
15. Doc # 0000015264, Information Report by (redacted), “Flying Objects Seen in Shakhty Area,” August 9, 1955.
16. Doc # 0000015377, memorandum from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI, to the CIA Director, “Flying Saucers or Unconventional Aircraft,” September 4, 1955.
17. Doc # 0000015277, Information Report, “Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft,” October 2, 1955.
18. Doc # 0000015293, letter from Allen Dulles, CIA Director, to Congressman Gordon Scherer, October 4, 1955.
19. Wikipedia, “John Carver Meadows Frost,” updated August 28, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
20. Doc # 0000015378, memorandum for Information, by W. E. Lexow, Chief, OSI Applied Science Division, “Reported Sighting of Unconventional Aircraft,” October 19, 1955.
21. Doc # 0000015381, memorandum from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI, for the Director of Central Intelligence, “Interview with (redacted),” October 20, 1955.
22. Doc # 0000015382, memorandum from Herbert Scoville, AD/SI, for the OSI Director, “Sightings of Flying Saucers or Unconventional Aircraft,” October 31, 1955. See also Doc # 0000015277.
23. Doc # 0005515997, Memorandum from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI to (redacted), “Guided Missiles in Afghanistan,” November 10, 1955.
24. National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, www.nicap.org.
25. Berliner, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document.
26. Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, April 1990.
27. Bob Gribble, “Looking Back,” MUFON UFO Journal, June 1990.
28. Ibid.
29. Wikipedia, “List of reported UFO sightings.”
Chapter 9 1956: Transitive
1. Doc # CIA-RDP79B00752A000300120001-2, non-sourced, photographs, “UFO Photos,” undated, 1956.
2. Doc # 0000015444, untitled, non-sourced handwritten note, undated, 1956.
3. Doc # 0000015266, Information Report by (redacted), “Report of Unidentified Flying Objects,” January 6, 1956.
4. Doc # 0005515999, Memorandum for the Record, by Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI, “Office Responsibilities for Non-Conventional Types of Air Vehicles,” January 9, 1956.
5. Doc # 0000015387, Memorandum for the Record, by W. E. Lexow, Chief, OSI Applied Science Division (ASD), “Responsibility for ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’,” February 9, 1956.
6. Ibid.
7. Doc # 0000015387; see also Doc # 0000015366.
8. Doc # 0000015384, memorandum from Robert Amory Jr., DD/I for the AD/SI, “Flying Saucers,” March 26, 1956.
9. Doc # 0000015390, memorandum from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI, to the CIA DD/I, “Flying Saucers,” April 13, 1956.
10. Doc # 0005515706, Information Report, by (redacted), “Report of Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity,” April 17, 1956.
11. Doc # 0000015280, Information Report by (redacted), “Fast-moving Flying Objects Over Stalingrad in Spring 1954,” August 2, 1956.
12. Doc # 0000015491, draft memorandum from J. P. Anderson for OSI executives, “Report of Unidentified Flying Object,” December 10, 1956.
13. Coral and Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story (New York: Signet Books/New American Library, 1969).
14. Good, Need to Know.
15. Clark, The UFO Book; Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters.
16. Ibid.
Chapter 10 1957: Ham Sandwich
1. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100080013-0, letter from (redacted), OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Thornton Page, Johns Hopkins University, January 1, 1957.
2. Doc # 0000015247, teletyped message (to/from redacted) March 4, 1957.
3. Doc # 0000015241, heavily redacted informal note (to/from redacted), March 5, 1957; see also Doc # 0000015295.
4. Doc # 0005515707, Information Report by (redacted), “Objects Observed Over Budapest,” April 1, 1957.
5. Doc # 0000015392, memorandum from (redacted), Deputy Assistant Director for Operations, to Assistant to the Director, “Leon Davidson Letter to the DCI,” May 8, 1957; see also Doc # 0000015241.
6. Phillip Coppens, “A lone chemist's quest to expose the UFO cover-up,” accessed December 19, 2017, www.eyeofthepsychic.com
7. Doc # 0000015295, letter from J. Arnold Shaw, Assistant to the Director, to Leon Davison [sic], May 10, 1957; see also Doc # 0000015241.
8. Doc # 0000015393, memorandum from (redacted), Chief, Contact Division, to the Chief, Chicago Office, May 10, 1957.
9. Doc # 0000015248, note (to/from redacted), July 2, 1957; see also Doc # 0000015241.
10. Doc # 0000015391, memorandum from (redacted), Director, Planning and Coordination, for (redacted), “Unidentified Flying Saucers (UFO),” June 11, 1957.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Doc # 0000015251, Information Report by (redacted), “Unidentified Flying Object Observed on Iran/USSR Border,” July 2, 1957.
15. Doc # 0000015395, memorandum from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Deputy Director for Coordination, “Flying Saucers,” (date illegible, post-7/8/57).
16. Wikipedia, “Wayne Sulo Aho,” updated August 31, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
17. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090042-3, news article, Charleston, West Virginia, newspaper (not identified), “Group Says Radar Traced Saucers at 3,600 MPH,” July 12, 1957.
18. Ibid.
19. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R0002
00090041-4, news article, Harlan, Kentucky, newspaper, July 20, 1957.
20. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090041-4; see also Doc # 0000015455
21. Doc # 0000015394, memorandum from (redacted) to the OSI Deputy Assistant Director, Collection, “Interview with (redacted) on the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects,” July 26, 1957.
22. Ibid.
23. Doc # 0005515655, note from Support (to/from redacted), August 20, 1957.
24. Wikipedia, Flight airspeed record, updated December 16, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org.
25. Doc # 0000015396, memorandum from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI, to the Acting Director, Central Intelligence, “Unidentified Flying Object Reported on 20 September 1957,” September 21, 1957.
26. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100080016-7, letter (to/from redacted), October 1, 1957.
27. Doc # 0000015297, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Lloyd V. Berkner, President, Associated Universities, October 2, 1957.
28. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100080015-8, letter (to/from redacted), October 5, 1957.
29. Doc # 0000015397, Office Memorandum from P. G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to the OSI Assistant Director, October 26, 1957.
30. Doc # 0000015243, message (to/from redacted), November 3, 1957; see also Doc # 0000015241.
31. Doc # 0000015249, note from (redacted) to (unknown), November 4, 1957; see also Doc # 0000015241.
32. Doc # 0000015244, teletyped message from (redacted) to (unknown), November 5, 1957; see also Doc # 0000015241 and related files.
33. Doc # 0000015302, Letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Luis Alvarez, University of California at Berkeley, November 5, 1957.
34. Doc # 0000015300, untitled letter from Philip G. Strong to Lloyd Berkner, Associated Universities Inc., published November 5, 1957.
35. Doc # 0000015301, untitled letter from Philip G. Strong to Thornton Page, Johns Hopkins University, Operations Research Office, published November 5, 1957.
36. Doc # 0000015398, memorandum from (redacted) to (illegible), “Case (redacted)—Photographs and Background of Unidentified Flying Object Seen by Ralph L. Mayher,” November 7, 1957.
37. Doc # CIA-RPD68-00046R000200090038-8, news article (publisher not shown), “Will Sputniks Solve Flying Saucer Puzzle?” by Douglas Larsen, November 18, 1957.
38. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100080009-5, letter from Thornton Page, The Johns Hopkins University, to Philip Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, December 4, 1957.
39. Doc # 0000015399, memo from (redacted) to Chief, (illegible), December 12, 1957.
40. Doc # 0005515656, teletyped message, (to/from redacted), December 19, 1957.
41. Doc # 0000015298, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Howard P. Robertson, Chairman, Defense Science Advisory Board, Department of Defense, December 20, 1957.
42. Doc # 0000015299, 0005515771, 0005515772, 0005515773.
43. Doc # 0005516035, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to USAF Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, “Declassification of the ‘Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects’,” December 20, 1957.
44. Doc # 0005515651, teletyped message, (to/from redacted), December 20, 1957.
45. See www.cia.gov.
46. Ibid.
47. Timothy Good, Above Top Secret (Kent, England: Quill Books, 1988).
48. Wikipedia, “List of reported UFO sightings.”
49. NICAP, “UFO Updates,” (n.d.), www.nicap.org.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. Clark, The UFO Book.
53. Good, Need to Know.
54. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters.
55. Infogalactic, “UFO sightings in Portugal,” updated January 14, 2015, https://infogalactic.com.
56. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, pp. 306-308.
57. Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia.
58. Story, The Encyclopedia of UFOs; Lorenzen and Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story.
Chapter 11 1958: Insurgencies Peak
1. Doc # 0000015304, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Samuel Goudsmit, Brookhaven National Laboratory, January 3, 1958.
2. Doc # 0000015402, one-page memorandum from (redacted) to Support Branch Chief, Chicago Office, “Case (redacted) closed and Dr. Leon Davidson,” January 9, 1958.
3. Doc # 0000015245, teletyped message (to/from redacted), January 31, 1958.
4. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100040072-9, Air Force Regulation 200-2, “Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO),” Department of the Air Force, February 5, 1958.
5. Doc # CIA-RDP81R00560R000100040072-9, Air Force Regulation 200-2, “Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO),” Department of the Air Force, February 5, 1958.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Doc # 0005515657, note (to/from redacted), February 5, 1958.
11. Doc # 0000015403, memorandum from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI, to the Assistant Director, Office of Operations, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” March 21, 1958.
12. Doc # 0000015305, letter from C. P. Cabell, CIA Deputy Director, to Major Donald Keyhoe (Retired), March 21, 1958.
13. Doc # CIA-RDP80B01676R0004000110007-1, memorandum from (redacted), Acting Assistant Director for Operations, for the AD/SI, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” (date illegible, post-3/21/58).
14. Doc #0005516038, memorandum from Herbert Scoville Jr., AD/SI, for the Assistant Director, Office of Operations, “Unidentified Flying Objects,” March 23, 1958.
15. Doc # 0005516039, memorandum from (redacted), Acting Assistant Director for Operations, to the Office of Scientific Intelligence (recipient name/title illegible), “Unidentified Flying Objects,” April 1, 1958.
16. Doc # 0000015306, letter from J. S. Earman, Executive Officer, CIA Director's office, to Major Donald Keyhoe (Retired), April 4, 1958.
17. Doc # 0000015408, Office Memorandum from the Chief, OSI Applied Science Division, to the OSI Assistant Director, “Comments on Letters Dealing with Unidentified Flying Objects,” April 4, 1958.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Doc # 0000015409, Memorandum for Record, by W. E. Lexow, Chief, OSI Applied Science Division, April 4, 1958.
21. Doc # 0000015308, letter from J. S. Earman, CIA Executive Officer, to USAF Major Lawrence J. Tacker, Information Service, Office of the Air Force Secretary, April 4, 1958.
22. Doc # 0000015303, letter from J. S. Earman, Executive Officer, to Donald Keyhoe, April 17, 1958.
23. Doc # 0000015410, Memorandum for Record, by W. E. Lexow, Chief, OSI Applied Science Division, “Meeting with Air Force Personnel Concerning Scientific Advisory Panel Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, dated 17 January 1953 (Secret),” May 16, 1958.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Doc # CIA-RDP91-00965R000400050068-8, Memorandum for the Record, by (redacted), Assistant to the Legislative Counsel, “Meeting with Air Force Representatives concerning Unidentified Flying Objects,” May 16, 1958, pp. 1–4.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Doc # 0000015411, Memorandum for Record, by LaRae L. Teel, Deputy Division Chief, OSI Applied Science Division, “Meeting with Mr. Chapin on Replying to Leon Davidson's UFO Letter, and June Subsequent Telephone Conversation with Major Tacker,” May 22, 1958; see also Docs # 0000015295 and 0000015241.
30. Doc # 0000015311, letter from J. S. Earman, Executive Officer, to Leon Davidson, May 26, 1958.
31. Doc # 0000015312, letter from Philip G. Strong, Deputy Assistant Director, to Samuel Goudsmit, Brookhaven National Laboratory, May 29, 1958; see also Doc # 0000015313 and 0000015314.
32. Doc # 0000015310, letter from Philip G. Strong to Lloyd Berkner, discussing Berkner's letter of April 21, 1958.
33. Doc # 0000015315, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy As
sistant Director, to Lloyd V. Berkner, President, Associated Universities, May 29, 1958.
34. Doc # 0000015316, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to USAF Major Lawrence J. Tacker, USAF Office of Information, June 4, 1958.
35. Doc # 0000015295, letter from Arnold Shaw to Leon Davidson, dated May 10, 1958; Doc # 0000015241, untitled report (two letters received from Davidson asking information on UFOs), date stamp April 26.
36. Doc # 0000015317, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Thornton Page, July 30, 1958.
37. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090036-0, news article, Pittsburgh (PA) Press, “Saucer Data Suppressed, Admiral Says,” August 2, 1958.
38. Doc # CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090032-4, Fred A. Kirsch, reply to letter to the editor, Akron Beacon Journal, “Seeks More Data on UFOs,” August 11, 1958.
39. Doc # 0000015318, letter from Philip G. Strong, OSI Deputy Assistant Director, to Samuel Goudsmit, Brookhaven National Laboratory, August 19, 1958.
40. Doc # 0000015412, Office Memorandum from W. E. Lexow, Chief, OSI Applied Science Division, to USAF Major Tacker, August 22, 1958; see also Doc # 0000015318.
41. Doc # 0000015413, Memorandum for Record, by W. E. Lexow, Chief, Applied Science Division, “Reply to Leon Davidson's Letter of 3 July 1958,” August 22, 1958.
42. Doc # 0005516198, Official Routing Slip from (illegible) to F. M. Chapin, assistant to the CIA Director, (post-8/22/58—log date incorrect).
43. Ibid.
44. Doc # 0000015319, letter from J. S. Earman, Executive Officer, to Donald Keyhoe, NICAP, October 10, 1958.
45. Doc # 0000015414, memorandum (to/from redacted), “Reported Photography of Unidentified Flying Objects,” October 1, 1958 (names redacted throughout; part of one paragraph deleted).
46. Ibid.
47. Doc # 0000015267, Information Report by (redacted), “Sighting of Unidentified Airborne Objects Near Leningrad,” October 10, 1958 (five of seven numbered paragraphs redacted); see also Doc # 0000015268, below.
48. Doc # 0000015268, Information Report by (redacted), “Unexplained Traveling Bright Light Seen in the Sky,” October 27, 1958; see also Doc # 0000015267, above.