1952.1202 Chadwell on Air Force briefing

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Chadwell on Air Force briefing

On 2 December 1952, a memo from H Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, for CIA’s DCI Walter Bedell Smith entitled “Unidentified Flying Objects” details a further Air Force briefing for CIA on 25 November 1952, stating that “at this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention. … Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and traveling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomena or known types of aerial vehicles.”.

Chadwell further stated ‘OSI is proceeding to the establishment of a consulting group of sufficient competence and stature to review this matter and convince the responsible authorities in the community that immediate research and development on this subject must be undertaken’. Chadwell attached a draft memorandum to the National Security Council.

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Web Resources

Text of relevant document included in CUFON CIA ufo-related document sampler in Part 1 (of 2 Parts). Available online at: http://www.cufon.org/cufon/cia-52-1.htm

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Book References

Complete text, and partial image, included by Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 336-337 (in Appendix B) of the Aurora Press paperback edition.

For discussion see the following:

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
2000	Dolan, Richard M. in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 190-191 (in Chapter 4) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at page 121 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition.	2
1987	Good, Timothy in his “Above Top Secret” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 330-331 (in Chapter 14) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Guild Publishing hardback edition and the Grafton paperback edition).	2
1996	Good, Timothy in his “Beyond Top Secret” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 403 (in Chapter 16) of the Sidgwick & Jackson hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Pan paperback edition).	1
1997	Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnote 25 in his study entitled “A Die-Hard Issue : CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90” in “Studies in Intelligence”, Issue 1997 Vol. 1, No. 1 (the text of the study is available online on various websites, including the CIA’s http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/97unclass/ufo.html#ft25	1
1983	Klass, Philip, with lenghy extract, in his “UFOs – The Public Deceived” (1983) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 27 (in Chapter 3) of the Prometheus softback edition.	1
2000	Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 252-253 (in Chapter 21) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.	2
1994	Peebles, Curtis, with extract from memo, in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 81 of the Smithsonian hardback edition, pages 98-99 of the Berkley paperback edition (Chapter 6, “The Robertson Panel” – in part of the section entitled “The Robertson Panel”).	1
1997	Shawcross, Tim in his “The Roswell File” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 207 (in Chapter 14) of the Bloomsbury softcover edition.	1
1998	Wright, Susan in her “UFO Headquarters” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Chapter 3) of the St Martin’s Press softcover edition.	1

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