Proposed Study on the 'Flying Saucers' Intelligence Advisory Committee

This document is a memorandum dated December 5, 1952, from V. P. Keay to A. H. Belmont regarding a proposed study on the 'flying saucers' phenomenon by the Intelligence Advisory Committee (IAC). The memorandum details that Supervisor M.W. Kuhrtz of the FBI's Liaison Section attended an IAC meeting on December 4, 1952. During this meeting, the members discussed reports of 'flying saucers' in Africa, which were allegedly linked to a theory proposed by a German scientist. While the Air Force had previously held that such sightings were meteorological phenomena, the new information suggested the possibility of a scientific development. Consequently, the military members of the IAC proposed a study to identify the nature of these phenomena. The objective was to determine if the 'saucers' represented a scientific advancement under the control of an enemy power. The FBI was directed to draft a paper on this problem for further IAC consideration. A second page of the document, dated October 29, 1984, confirms the release of these FBI documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by Brian Parks.