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Summary

Two-page State Department memorandum dated July 28, 1952 recording Paul Nitze's request to pass along the Air Force view of flying saucers at the next morning's meeting. An attached memo summarizes remarks by General Samford, delivered at the Intelligence Advisory Committee, holding that the matter is still a complete enigma though similar phenomena have been reported for more than a century. Samford attributed the rise in reports to improved radar and pilot reporting systems and to publicity, and stated that credible observers are reporting the incredible. He allowed that radar returns might be an electronic fluke but were linked to pilot sightings.