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 for Scicntiflc Intelligence
 Chief, Physics, and Electronics Division, SI
 new   Q!!G  8 t955
 Responsibility !or pUaidentified Flying Objects" (UeOHs~
 A.  b!emo to Ch/P..:E from AD/SI, 27 2?Say 53, "Unidentified
 Flying ~~ects"
 B.   Me:ro to AD/SI frc.~s Ch/FFwt 3 ;7u1y y3,'Vnidentified
 Flying Objects"
 C .   p'.ea:o Yor the Record sign_d by Ch/ASD, Ch/ops, and
 Ch/P'vE, l~F Juns Sk, "Intelligence Responsibilities for
 Non-Conveatianal Types oY Air Yehicles"
 1.  By reference A, this Dfvisioa Was assigned "r~spon=
 sibility for maintsSning current knoxledge of sightings of
 oaideatified. flying ob,+,ects."
 2.  By Teleran:e~B, which receivsd the concurrence of
 yoLr of!'ice, this Division rroposed to handle its responsi-
 bilities as fo11o,-s:
 "a.  the praMsct x111 be considered as inective
 b.  the incc~i.^.g ^s:erial x111 be re?riewed periodically
 to segregate :r.erences to recognizable and explainable
 gheao~'ra frc- those which co:tte under t2:e wafinition of
 'unidentified flying o`+~sets'                                  '
 c.  all raterial ca unidentified objects will be
 depoait~d in tae files for futu.~c reference unless it
 raises an i~zdiately recognizable problem of concern
 to national security."                        '
 3.  Raference C clarified but did not raduce the responsi-
 bility of this Division oa the subject project.
 b.  Since tY_e issuance of Reference A, tt~ responsibility
 delineated in Far. 2b, above, hss required bst.raen 10 and 2q
 ensi;st hoLrs psr month an3 tre responsibilities under ~aar? e'.+,
 above, about half that much clerical tis:-.
 5.  It is regtusted that this Divinioa b~ :?elicved of
 the reapoasibilitles assigned to it unc:cr Reference A sinces
 a.  !io iuteliisence of concern ~o nation:-1 security
 has been developed fray the pro~eet.
 b.  The pro~eet ea defined b:,r Reteseace C does not
 fell wider the provision of DCIt} 4~4 oa Critical hation?.u
 Iatelligence ObJectivrs.
 t,  R'eE'a successful participation is the F'Y-1gg6
 0.gI Productiaa.Progrrm requires. that all non-essential
 aetivi.oiea be tersSttated.
 6.  Ia vies of: the fact that no positive intel:igence of
 sigaiFicance has bass pzocYucec;, urdar the subaeet'pro~ect, it 3s
 recommended that tre pro3ect ^:e tezrsinatad and the riles thareot
 be placed Sn dead sto~e~

