Briefing Notes for Mr Walter Elder

Summary

CIA-UAP-D023 is a two-page set of CIA briefing notes prepared for Mr. Walter Elder on unidentified flying objects approaching the vicinity of Puerto Rico on 16, 18, 19, 22, and 24 November 1965. The notes describe a 19 November contact in which an object appeared on the USS Gyatt's radar twenty-one times and closed on a fighter aircraft, and a 24 November event at the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range when a high-speed, high-altitude target pulled away from a Crusader aircraft flying at Mach 0.99 and 45,000 feet. In bright moonlight a Crusader pilot identified the UFO as a Delta-shaped object about the size of a jet fighter and estimated its speed in excess of Mach 3. The notes state ONI had no further information and that the USS Gyatt carries the latest and most accurate radar.