CIA File of the Day
Flying Saucers
A 1 August 1952 informal memorandum from the acting chief of the Weapons and Equipment Division, offering an overall evaluation of flying saucers and associated reports. Of 1,000 to 2,000 such reports received by ATIC, a large percentage are described as clearly phony, an equally large percentage can be explained as known flights of operational U.S. equipment such as aircraft and weather balloons, and many others are of natural phenomena such as meteorites, clouds, or aberrations of light.
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