The “JFK UFO memo” dated Nov 12, 1963 has circulated for years with no confirmed archival source. Why does it still hold up in the debate?

The memo is marked Top Secret and dated November 12, 1963. In it, JFK asks the CIA director to review “high threat cases” and set up data sharing with NASA. It names James Webb, then NASA Administrator, and asks for an interim report by February 1, 1964. The recipient’s name is blacked out, the page is stamped “draft,” and no archive has produced an original. What is documented is NSAM 271, a real Kennedy directive from the same date on space cooperation with the Soviet Union. If this memo is...

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