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Declassified UFO / UAP Document

Response to Major Donald E. Keyhoe regarding CIA records on unidentified flying objects

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A 1958 CIA letter to Major Donald E. Keyhoe denying that the Agency ever instructed UFO witnesses to remain silent. The document confirms that a search of CIA records yielded no evidence of such activity.

This document is a formal letter dated April 17, 1958, from J. S. Earman, Executive Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency, to Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret), who was serving as the Director of NICAP. The letter serves as a direct response to a previous inquiry made by Major Keyhoe in a letter dated March 13th. In his response, Earman states that he had caused the records of the Central Intelligence Agency to be thoroughly checked regarding allegations that CIA employees had instructed witnesses of unidentified flying objects to remain silent about their sightings. Earman explicitly informs Keyhoe that the Agency found no evidence in its records to support such claims. The document includes a distribution list indicating that copies were sent to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force (specifically Major L. H. Thacker), Colonel Crogan, and Mr. Lexov of ADSI. The document was later declassified in February 2010.

I have had the records of this Agency checked and find nothing therein reflecting that any CIA employee, at any time, covered any witness to an unidentified flying object to remain silent concerning said witness's observations of said UFO.

Official Assessment

I have had the records of this Agency checked and find nothing therein reflecting that any CIA employee, at any time, covered any witness to an unidentified flying object to remain silent concerning said witness's observations of said UFO.

The CIA found no evidence that any of its employees had ever instructed witnesses to unidentified flying objects to remain silent regarding their observations.

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