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The CIA UFO Papers

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by Dan Wright


  3. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters.

  4. Good, Need to Know.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  Chapter 41 1999: A Fitting Climax

  1. Doc # 0005517742, Department of Defense, National Reconnaissance Office, by Gerald K. Haines, Historian, “CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” July 1, 1999.

  Chapter 42 2000 and Beyond

  1. Doc # CIA-RDP96-00792R000700680001-6, German journal entry, Parapsychology Abstracts International, “The Spectrum of UFO Sightings,” May 17, 2000.

  2. Doc # CIA-RDP96-00787R000500250002-0, questionnaire, Naval Postgraduate School, August 7, 2000.

  3. Doc # CIA-RDP96-00792R000701020004-4, abstract, “An Experimental Evaluation of a Belief in Psi,” by Kenneth Reed, University of Edinburgh, August 15, 2000.

  4. Colm Kelleher, “Research at the National Institute for Discovery Science,” MUFON 2000 International UFO Symposium Proceedings.

  5. Story, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, 385–386.

  Index

  A

  lasting effects after, 239

  medical testing and, 238

  use of the word, 185

  abduction of Betty and Barney Hill, 163, 206

  detailed account of Betty and Barney Hill, 185

  Aberdeen, Washington, fuzzy round objects in, 231

  aberrations, optical or electronic, 37

  abnormal circumstances surrounding UFO flights, 303

  accounts, disqualification of single-witness, 33–34

  Adamski, George, 107, 264

  alleged visits to, 142

  FBI threat to, 140

  adaptation to night viewing, sightings and, 36

  ADC,

  Kinross intercept and the, 69–70

  Project Blue Book transfer to, 67

  radar station reports of an unknown object and, 23

  aerial anomalies,

  Air Force experience and, 152–153

  assigned responsibility for, 97

  four issues for, 36

  USAF role regarding reported, 121

  aerial anomalies

  and the absence of a reference point, 36

  and the absence of material evidence, 36

  case evaluation of, 49

  aerial intruders at Minot Air Force Base, 193–194

  aerial lights over Cheshire, England, 274

  aerial maneuvers of a metallic sphere, 282

  aerial object

  over the Escambia Bay Bridge, 288

  sighting over Karup Air Field, 63

  spotted near the Shetland Islands, 297–298

  aerial objects,

  procedures for identifying unknown, 33

  reports of unidentified, 41

  aerial objects

  investigated by, 32

  abduction,

  over Homs, Syria, 63

  photographed over Sweden, 151

  aerial phenomena,

  answers to, 13

  publicized events of anomalous, 83

  research of, 246–247

  aerial phenomena

  in America, 35–36

  in Europe, 35–36

  Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, see APRO

  Aerial Phenomena Section, 66, 67

  aerial unknown over Helsinki, Finland, 79

  aerial vehicle, creation of a saucer-shaped prototype, 299

  aerial vehicles, photographic prints of, 96

  aeronautical equipment, Soviet, 106

  Aerospace Intelligence Division, 246

  AFOSI, 44, 45

  AFOSR, 213

  Robertson Report and the, 189

  Aho, Wayne Sulo, 107

  claims of ESP by, 108

  AIAA, 226–227

  air base commanders, initial investigations of UFO sightings and, 135

  Air Defense Command, see ADC

  Air Force,

  brainwashing by the, 170

  Carl Jung's claims against the, 131

  collection of data by the, 122

  conclusions withheld by the, 65–66

  contract to build a flying saucer from the, 92

  correspondence with the, 102

  differences with J. Allen Hynek and the, 208

  Donald Keyhoe allegations against the, 171

  growing impatience of the, 182–186

  handling of UFO cases by the, 199

  hidden UFO surveillance by the, 264

  instrumentation in sightings and the, 37

  UFO proof and the, 65

  Air Force

  analysis of UFO reports for Soviet attacks, 39

  and pressure from NICAP, the, 102

  concerns about UFOs, 150

  conspiracy to cover up UFO surveillance of military bases, 263–264

  coverup of flying saucers, 107–108

  debunking effort, 186

  defense mission, 154

  denial of congressional hearings on UFOs, 130

  denials regarding the Robertson Panel Report, 132–133

  experience and aerial anomalies, 152–153

  information on UFOs, 121

  interest in UFOs and objectives, 122

  investigative methods, questioning of, 187

  of photographs of an unknown, 111

  regulations for air bases, 150

  reports of UFOs, contents of, 123

  secret weapons, UFO sightings, and 162

  statistical summary of UFO reports, 173–174

  study, OSI's evaluation of, 43

  Air Force Office of Scientific Research, see AFOSR

  Air Force Office of Special Investigations, see AFOSI

  Air Force-OSI Study Group findings, 35

  Air Force Secretary's Office of Information, see SAFOI

  Air Force Stand, 34, 35, 36, 37

  Air Materiel Command, sightings reported to, 18

  Air Technical Intelligence Center, see ATIC

  air traffic control, 30, 115, 123, 196, 273

  flying disc witnessed by, 20

  Jacksonville, 260

  object spotted by, 257

  unknown tracked by, 84

  white light spotted by, 11

  airborne disc over Bosinai, Papua New Guinea, 144

  airborne objects, inexplicable, 37

  aircraft mistaken for UFOs, 33, 36

  airline pilots, Defense Department warning issued to, 83

  airplane accidents, UFOs responsible for, 142

  airplane warning lights mistaken for flying objects, 215

  airship

  incidents, 183

  Russian thermoplane, 301

  spotted in Kent, New York, 273

  spotted in Murmansk, Russia, 286

  Airways and Air Communication Service, see AACS

  Akcyev, Dr. Inal, UFO explanations of, 253

  Alaska, sightings in, 23

  Albuquerque, New Mexico,

  ATIC instrumentation near, 68

  UFO crash near, 241

  Algeria,

  cigar-shaped object over, 71–72

  sightings in, 28

  Algerian Hammaguir military base, light in the sky over, 209–210

  Algiers, black disc sighting in, 28

  Algiers factory sighting of a white mass, 28

  alien bodies, recovery of four, 276

  Almansa, Spain, glowing spheres over, 38–39

  aluminum, discs made of, 27

  aluminum foil, entity wearing, 237

  Alvarez, Luis, 48, 105

  communication with Philip Strong, 111

  America, aerial phenomena in, 35–36

  American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, see AIAA

  American Juno 2 rocket, deflection of the, 143

  Andrews Air Force Base, objects flying over, 30

  Andujar, Spain, red object over, 39

  anemia, sightings and, 36

  anomalies

  in Europe, 37

 
; in North Africa, 37

  recorded by the ATIC, 31

  anomalous

  flying objects and stereoscopic photos, 215

  light over Portalegre, Portugal, 117

  object over Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 231

  objects, 153

  objects over Washington, D.C., 175

  radar propagation, 56–57

  sphere, crash of an, 281

  anomalous aerial phenomena,

  Herbert Scoville and, 96–97

  publicized events of, 83

  Antarctica, egg-shaped object seen in, 162–163

  Applied Science Division, see ASD 60–61

  APRO, 57–58, 155–156

  Marshall H. Chadwell and, 61

  Argentina, multiple-topic report received from, 164–165

  Armed Forces Security Agency, see NSA

  Armed Services Committee, 160, 192

  Amory, Jr., Robert, 40–41

  correspondence with Herbert Scoville, 99

  Armstrong, Virgil, 5

  Army, 7, 56, 258, 271

  evidence of UFOBs, 68

  Army Air Corps, 6

  Arnhem, Netherlands, incident at, 38

  Arnold, Kenneth, 35, 182–183, 205, 273

  sighting by, 6, 26

  Arras, France, fiery object seen over, 70

  artifacts of extraterrestrial origins, 52–53

  Artsishauskas, Valentinas, 279–280

  ASD, 60–61, 62, 126, 127, 130

  hardware aspects of flying craft and, 106

  incoming reports and, 97–98

  maintaining files and responsibilities of, 97

  responsibility of UFOs by, 98

  Soviet information and the, 92

  surveillance conducted by, 97–98

  ASD surveillance, 77

  astronomers, personal sightings by, 205

  astronomical

  bodies mistaken for UFOs, 36

  sightings mistaken for UFOs, 153

  sources mistaken for UFOs, 114

  astronomy, study of UFOs and, 121

  Athens, Greece, UFO article published in, 27–28

  ATIC, 10, 307

  anomalies recorded by the, 31

  briefing by, 32

  cameras situated by, 67–68

  classification of unknowns by, 13

  documents analyzed by the, 33

  instrumentation in Albuquerque by the, 68

  investigations, 57

  Leon Davidson and, 105

  map in the Robertson Report, 53–54

  misinterpreted sources, 36

  number of reports received by, 42

  outside inquiries and, 32–33

  Project Blue Book quarterly statistical reports by the, 68

  responsibility of handling UFO reports by the, 34

  role in UFO sightings, 123

  suggested expansion of the, 57

  Wright-Patterson Air Force base and, 103, 123

  atmospheric effects, UFO reports and, 306

  atmospheric phenomena mistaken for UFOs, 36

  atmospherics, study of UFOs and, 121

  Atomic Energy Commission, 13, 56

  shiny silver objects near the, 21

  atomic fission and flying saucers, 34–35

  Auckland Air Traffic Control radar, UFOs detected by, 213

  Aurora Borealis mistaken for UFOs, 36

  Avro design studies, 92

  B

  Bahia Blanca, Argentina, anomalous object over, 231

  Baku, Azerbaijan, flying saucer over, 91

  ball lightning, 57

  UFOs and, 187

  ball lighting

  mistaken for UFOs, 36

  mistaken for flying objects, 215

  balloons, 33, 49, 51, 52, 56, 67, 71, 72, 78, 94, 109, 114, 122, 153, 174, 226, 243

  ATIC and, 57

  high-altitude, 215

  mistaken for UFOs, 36

  psychological warfare, 218

  scouting, 214

  Skyhook, 10, 19, 36, 205, 215, 273

  weather, 34, 55, 94, 117, 183

  Barcelona, Spain,

  rocket-shaped object over, 37

  unfamiliar objects spotted over, 29

  base commanders, information releases by, 167

  Battelle Memorial Institute, special reports prepared by the, 88–89

  Bellefontaine, Ohio, 48

  Belo Horizonte, Brazil, hovering vehicle over, 277

  Benton Harbor, Michigan, saucer shape seen over, 210

  Bentwaters Air Force Base, events at, 229–230

  Bergen, Norway, bright lights crossing over, 141

  Berkner, Lloyd V., 105, 109, 110, 113, 120, 129

  Bermuda Triangle, missing aircraft over, 86

  Beverly, Massachusetts, gray-white saucers in, 193

  birds mistaken for UFOs, 37

  black disc sighting in Algiers, 28

  blood-red star over Worcester, South Africa, 77

  blue flame during sighting at Hamilton Air Force Base, 20

  blue-white lights over Wilmington, Delaware, 31

  bodies discovered in an unknown object in Kingman, Arizona, 73–74

  Bohol Island, airborne object over, 135

  Boldender, Carroll H., 224

  Bolling Air Force Base, interceptors at, 31

  boomerang shape over Indian Point nuclear power plant, 275

  boomerang-shaped object in White Pond, New York, 273

  Bornholm Island, triangular object near, 45

  Bosinai, Papua New Guinea, airborne disc over, 144

  Boukanefis, Algeria, plate-shaped object sighting in, 28

  brainwashing by the Air Force, 170

  Brazil, UFO photos from, 64

  Brazilian naval ship, UFO photos taken from a, 154–155

  Bregenz, Austria, disc observed over, 80

  Breslau, Poland, 4, 5, 63, 76

  bright lights crossing over Bergen, Norway, 141

  British-Canadian jet-powered flying saucer, 106

  Bryant, Larry W., 134–135, 269, 271

  bullet shaped object near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 21

  Bundy, William, 58

  Bunker Hill Air Force Base, pear-shaped object over, 145

  Bush, George H. W., criticisms from, 254

  Byrne, James F., 109

  C

  Cabell, Major General Charles P., 18

  response to Donald Keyhoe, 123–124

  California Committee for Saucer Investigation, 58

  Camp Smith, 275

  Canberra, Australia, unknown over, 196

  Cannon Air Force Base, UFOs at, 250

  Canterbury Coast, aerial events over, 261

  Cape Girardeau, Missouri, encounter in, 237

  Carroll, General Joseph, 15–16

  Carter, Jimmy,

  UFO investigations and, 313

  UFO sighting of, 222–223

  Casablanca, sightings over, 38

  Cascade Mountains, sighting in the, 26

  Cathie, Bruce, 213

  Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, 14

  Central Intelligence Group, 4

  Chadwell, H. Marshall, 40, 41, 48, 55, 56, 61, 62, 75, 93

  communications with, 48

  Chapin, Frank, 129

  letter to Fred Kirsch, 140

  response to Donald Keyhoe, 132

  Cherlbourg, France, unknown in, 183

  Cheshire, England, aerial lights over, 274

  China,

  aerial phenomena in, 267–268

  UFOs witnessed in, 296

  Chop, Albert, 65–66

  Christchurch, lights over, 262

  Ciampino air base, mysterious object spotted over, 82

  cigar-shaped

  mass sighting in Tiaret, Algeria, 28

  object over Oloron, France, 46

  circular object spotted over Helsinki, Finland, 82

  Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, 134, 240, 269, 271

  clairvoyance, MITI study of, 298

  Clark, H. L.,
41–42

  Clark, Ralph, 31

  memo from Todos Odarenko from, 66

  close encounter

  in French Equatorial Africa, 63

  on the Monon Railroad, 136

  clothing, sightings of men dressed in shiny metallic, 27–28

  Coast Guard, 18, 171, 295, 298

  Cochise, New Mexico, disc-shaped object over, 93

  Cold War, sightings during the, 114–115

  Colorado UFO Project,

  final report from the, 220

  Operating Manual amendment for the, 212

  problems within the, 216–217

  procedures for reporting to the, 211

  wrap-up of the, 221

  comet-like light seen over Matanzas, Cuba, 301

  Commission for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, see CSICOP

  Commission on Aerodynamic Phenomena (Soviet), 272

  Condon, Edward U., 185, 199, 220, 221

  record of leadership for, 217

  NPIC and, 197

  public security risk of, 188

  sightings theories of, 200

  visit to NPIC, 198

  Condon Committee, 189, 208, 213, 231

  formation of the, 192

  released findings of the, 310

  Condon group, Project Blue Book and the, 187

  Condon Report, 116, 220, 221, 226, 230, 236

  effect on public interest of UFOs and the, 228

  confidentially offered by NICAP, 107

  congressional hearings on UFOs, secret, 130

  contactees, 108, 140, 190

  and extraterrestrial beings, 107

  conventional aircraft mistaken for UFOs, 114

  Cooper, Gordon L., 114

  object spotted by, 168

  sighting by, 24

  Coordinator of Information, evolution of the, 3

  Corning, California, encounter near, 157–158

  cosmic ray particles, UFO explanations and, 253

  Cotile Lake, Louisiana, sound heard near, 256–257

  Coyne, Lawrence J., 238

  CSICOP, 276

  cylindrical object sighting at Eglin Air Force Base, 12

  D

  Dakar, Senegal, gray object over, 81

  Dalnegorsk, Russia, UFO crash in, 294

  Danish Defense Command, 63

  Darmstadt, West Germany, flying saucers over, 80

  Davidson, Leon, 160

  ATIC and, 105

  correspondence with Allen Dulles, 103

  cover-up allegation of, 112

  ham radio transmission and, 104

  letters to OSI from, 268

  recording sent to, 103–104

  tape recording translation and, 120

  Davis-Monthan Air Force Base,

  discs over, 44

  incident at, 30

  daytime sightings, shapes of, 13

 

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