III. US Government Documents Related to UFOs
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CIA Letter to CSETI regarding documents requested under FOIA.
1. To: The Controller of Telecommunications
From: Wilber B. Smith, Senior Radio Engineer - Department of Transportation
Date: November 21, 1950
Re: Top Secret Memorandum on geomagnetic research project, including the information
obtained through the Canadian Embassy that UFO subject is classified in US higher
than the H bomb and the US assessment that "flying saucers exist".
2. To: William Steinman
From: Dr. Robert Sarbacher, Washington Institute of Technology
Date: November 29, 1983
Re: Identifies 3 other scientists involved in crashed saucer study; confirms recovery of
material, instruments and occupants from the crashed discs.
3. To: Commanding Officer, AF Cambridge Research Laboratory
From: Wilbur L. Mitchell, Mathematician, Data Reduction Unit
Date: July 13, 1950
Re: Objects over Holloman AFB - altitude of approximately 150,000 feet, 30 feet in
diameter, traveling at undeterminable high speed.
4. To: Commanding General, Army Air Forces, Attn: Brig. General George Schulgen
From: N.F. Twining, Lieutenant General USA Commanding
Air Materiel Command - Headquarters
Date: September 23, 1947
Re: Detailed Assessment from Air Materiel Command including opinion that: "The
phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious."
5. To: Executive Secretary, National Security Council
From: Walter Smith, CIA Director
Date: unknown
Re: Urging wider study of UFOs especially related to United States Cold War security
6. To: Ambassador Griffith, Mission of Grenada to the United Nations
From: L. Gordon Cooper, Col. USAF, Astronaut
Date: November 9, 1978
Re: Cooper's assessment that UFOs are real and of extraterrestrial origin and that other
astronauts have had sightings.