Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Memorandum for Assistant Director/Scientific Intelligence regarding Flying Saucers
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AI-Generated Summary
A 1956 CIA memorandum discusses a French magazine report of a radar-confirmed UFO sighting and suggests the agency should monitor the topic to provide refutations for public reports.
This memorandum, dated 26 March 1956, was authored by Robert Amory, Jr., the Deputy Director of Intelligence, and addressed to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence. The document concerns the subject of 'Flying Saucers.' Amory references an article in the 17 March 1956 issue of the French magazine MATCH, which reported on a sighting of an 'objet celeste' (celestial object) that was allegedly captured in a radar photograph and confirmed by the visual sighting of a commercial airline pilot. Amory poses two questions to the recipient: whether the agency is maintaining contact with the Air Force regarding these phenomena, and whether the agency concerns itself with foreign sightings of this nature. Furthermore, Amory notes that in the coming year, Mars will reach its closest point to Earth in a long period. He argues that despite the 'outlandish' nature of the subject, the Office of Scientific Intelligence (CSI) has a responsibility to monitor the topic, primarily to provide the front office with information to refute 'spectacular published reports.'
Outlandish as it may seem, I do feel that CSI has the responsibility to keep its finger on this general subject if for no other purpose than to arm the front office with the refutation of the more spectacular published reports.
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Official Assessment
The author suggests that CSI should maintain awareness of the subject, particularly in light of the upcoming proximity of Mars to Earth, to provide the front office with refutations for spectacular published reports.