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ft, ax Foe pen, ot wn ad . oA * Office Memorandum » UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To WR. Aw He peiwon™*” DATE: October 27, 1952 7 a FROM: . ve P. KEAY, a a v= SUBJECT: FLYING SAUCERS ve - SYNOPSIS: — Alr Intelligence advised of another creditable and = ™=_ unerplainable sighting of flying saucers. Air. Intelligence ~~ still feels flying saucers are_optical tliustons or atmosas pherical phenomena but 3 some 2 Milit ary officials are. Seriously considering the posstbility of interplanetary ships. BACKGROUND: You will recall that Air Intelligence has previously Kept the Rureau 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 Intelligence Center located at Wright-Patterson Air.Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; that approrimately 90 per cent of the reported sightings of flying saucers can be discounted as products of the tmagination and as erpvlainable objects such as weather balloons, etc., but that a small percentage of extremely creditable sightings have been unerplatnable. DETAILS: Colonel C. M. Young, Erecutive Officer to Mayor General John As Samford, Director of Intelligence, Air Force, advised on October .23, 1952, that another recent extremely 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 fiim to Air Intelligence who had it studieg by the Air Technical Intelligence Center. Experts at the Air Tethnical_Intelligence Center have advised that, after careful study, there were as many as twelve to sixteen flying objects recorded on_ this film; that the possibility of weather balloons, clouds or other explainable objects has been completely ruled out; and that they are at a complete loss to ezplain this most recent 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. {67283 8e- F NWP/f 35D) 0 ' ’ 4), ay OCT 30 1952" _ Sy? - = Nae