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SUBJECT: UFOs SERIOUS BUSINESS FILE: UFO2931
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[The following is a reprint of an article appearing on The New York Times,
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Sunday, February 28, 1960 retrieved via microfilm from the Morris Country
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library of New Jersey.]
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AIR FORCE ORDER
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ON 'SAUCERS' CITED
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Pamphlet by Inspector
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General call Objects a
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'Serious
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Business'
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI)-The Air Force has sent its commands a warning to
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treat sightings of unidentified flying objects as "serious business"
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directly related to the nation's defense, it learned today. An Air Force
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spokesman confirmed issuance of the directive after portions
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of it were made public by a "private "flying saucer" group.
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The new regulations were issued by the Air Force inspector general Dec.
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24.
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The regulations, revising similar ones issued in the past, outlined
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procedures and said that "investigations and analysis of UFO's [sic] are
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directly related to the Air Force's responsibility for the defense of the
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United States."
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Committee Reveals Document
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Existence of the document was revealed by the Investigations Committee on
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Aerial Phenomena.
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The privately financed committee accused the Air Force of deception in
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publicly describing reports of unidentified flying objects as delusions and
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hoaxes while sending the private admonition to its commands. Vice Admiral R.
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H. Hillenkoetter (Ret.), a committee board member and
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former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said in a statement that
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a copy of the inspector general's warning had been sent to the Senate
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Science and Astronautics Committee.
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"It is time for the truth to be brought out into the open in Congressional
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hearings." he said.
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The Air Force confirmed that the document had been issued. A spokesman
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said it was put out by Maj. Gen. Richard E. O'Keefe, acting inspector
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general at the time, to call attention to revised Air Force regulations
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concerning unidentified flying objects.
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The statement was included in an "operations and training" pamphlet
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circulated at intervals to bring commands up to date.
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Pentagon aides said new regulations covering seven printed pages, made no
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substantive change in policy but had been rewritten as a matter or course.
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The Air Force has investigated 6,312 reports of flying objects since 1947,
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including 183 in the last six months of 1959. The latest Air Force
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statement issued as month ago said "no physical or material evidence, not
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even a minute fragment of a so-called flying sauceer [sic] has ever been
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found."
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Admiral Hillenkoetter said that "behind the scenes, highranking Air Force
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officers are soberly concerned about the UFO's [sic]."
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"But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to
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believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense," the retired admiral said.
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He charged that "to hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its
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personnel" through the issuance of a regulation.
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