CIA-UAP-019, Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem

Project BLUE BOOK was terminated, but this would have little effect on the main programme.

with the recommendations of the Condon report, Project BLUE BOOK was terminated, but presumably this would have little effect on the main programme.

Australia lacks an intelligence viewpoint to assess the nature and possible consequences of the UFO problem.

We lack an intelligence viewpoint that can assess the nature and possible consequences of the problem.

The USAF considered UFOs to be real and probably of Soviet origin in 1947.

Within a month it was considered that the phenomena were real and probably of Soviet origin.

By the end of 1947, most investigators focused on an interplanetary rather than a Soviet origin for UFOs.

By the end of the year, when ATIC was officially authorized to investigate under the project code name of SIGN and with a high priority, most of the investigators were focusing on an interplanetary rather than a Soviet origin.

Project GRUDGE was an attempt to destroy any acceptance of UFOs.

A definite attempt was made during 1949 to use Project GRUDGE to destroy any acceptance of UFOs.

The CIA was almost certainly the agency assisting ATIC in 1948.

This governmental agency was not the FBI, and had rocket, nuclear and intelligence experts; their purpose was to study UFO reports in an effort to gather design data on interplanetary spaceships. In the light of later developments, this agency was almost certainly the CIA.

Project BLUE BOOK was able to process data from 3,200 reports into a form suitable for their consultants to be able to use IBM card-sorting machines.

Project BLUE BOOK was able to process the data from 3,200 reports into a form suitable for their consultants to be able to use IBM card-sorting machines.

The summer of 1952 saw a more than twenty-fold rise in the normal rate of UFO reporting.

The summer of 1952 saw a more than twenty-fold rise in the normal rate of reporting and included the two extensive July sightings involving Washington D.C.

The CIA regarded the summer 1952 UFO activity as a threat to national security.

On the other hand, the CIA regarded the summer UFO activity as a threat to national security mainly because the resulting crowded communications and defence forces involvement lessened the level of national alertness against possible enemy attack.

The CIA showed a preference to publicly abandon the UFO investigation while intensifying data collection.

The CIA, however, in a report dated 16 February 1953 showed a preference to publicly abandon the investigation whilst intensifying the collection of data.