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ONITED STATES GOVERNMENT Ae | DATE: July 29, 1952 FROM . SUBJECT: ~ PLYING SAUCERS — PURPOSE: To advise at the present time the Air Force has fatled to arrive at any satisfactory conclu ston in tts research regarding numerous reports of flying saucers and = ) DETAILS: 2 TK 2 UM GaAKE Mr. N. W. Philcor, the Bureau's Air Force Liaison | ve, made arrangements through the office of Major General John A. Samford, Director of Air Intelligences U.S. Air Force, to Pecetve a briefing_from Commander Randall * Boyd of the Current Intelligence Branch, Estimates Division, Air Intelligence, regarding the present status of Air Intelligence research into the numerous reports regarding flying saucers and flying discs. ) Commander Boyd advised that Air Intelligence has set up at Wright-Patterson Air Force.Bases Ohios,.the..Air Technical Intelligence Center which has.been.established for the purpose of coordinating, correlating.and making.research into all reports regarding flying saucers and fiying discs, He advised that Air Force research has indicated that the sightings o lying saucers goes back several centuries and that the number of sightings reported vartes wtth the amount of publicity. He advised that immediately if publicity appears in_newspapers, the number of sightings reported increases considerably and that citizens immediately call in reporting sightings which occurred several months previously. Commander Boyd stated that these reported sightings of flying saucers are placed into three classifications by Air Intelligence: (1) Those sightings which are reported by citizens who claim they have seen flying saucers from the ground, These sightings vary in descriptton, color and speeds. Very little credence is given to these sightings inasmuch as tn most instances they are believed to be imaginative or some erplatnable object which actually crossed through the sky. (2) Sightings reported by commercial or military pilots, These sightings are considered more credible RECORDED-196 [.4- 33994 _ AL NWP: hke ere : a 6 AUG Np