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Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT i anrroe TO : MR. Ae He BELMONT’ Se DATE: October 27, 1952 FROM io P. aaa? +Fpr— Y SUBJECT: ~ FLYING SAUCERS v4 SYNOPSIS:=: Air Intelligence advised of another creditable and. unerplainable sighting of flying..saucers. Air Intelligence still feels flying saucers are eptical silustonst ee aibeen pherical phenomena but some Military officials are geniausLy considering the possibility of interplanetary ships. BACKGROUND: You will recall that Air Intelligence has previously kept the Bureau advised regarding developments pertaining to Air Intelligence research on the flying saucer problem. Air Intelligence has previously advised that all research pertaining to this problem is handled by the Air Technical. In gence Center located at Wright-Patterson. Abr Oree Base, Dayton, Ohios that approrimately 90 per cent of the reported sightings of flying saucers can be discounted as products of the imagination and as erplainable objects such as weather balloons, etc., but that a small percentage of extremely creditable sightings have been unerplainable. DETAILS: Colonel C. M. Young, Erecutive Officer to Major General John A» Samford, Director of Intelligence, Air Force, advised on OcLODer.vady 1952, that another recent exrtremely creditable sighting had been reported to Air Intelligence. A Navy photographer, while traveling across the United States in his own car, saw a number of objects in the sky which appeared to be flying saucers. He took approrimately thirty-five feet of motion-picture film of these objects. He voluntarily submitted the film to Air Intelligence who had it studied by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Ezperts at the Air Technical Intelligence Center have advised that, after careful study, there were as many as twelve to sizteen flying objects recorded ON LALSufbebms that the possibility of weather balloons, = clouds or other explainable objects has been completely ruled out; Xd and that they are at a complete loss to erplain this most recent Ad creditable sighting. The Air Technical Intelligence Center experts pointed out that they could not be optical illusions inasmuch as optical illusions could not be recorded on film. ae : ae ay 0C7 30 1982" JN