From OI OB
For some time we have been concerned by the recurring reports on flying
saucers. They periodically continue to crop
up; during the last week, one was
observed hovering over
Neubiberg Air Base for about thirty minutes. They
have been
reported by so many sources and from such a variety of places
that
we are convinced that they cannot be disregarded and must be
explained on some
basis which is perhaps slightly beyond the
scope of our present intelligence
thinking.
When officers of this Directorate recently visited the
Swedish Air
Intelligence Service. This question was put to the
Swedes. Their answer
was that some reliable and fully
technically qualified people have reached
the conclusion that
"these phenomena are obviously the result of a high
technical
skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture on
earth." They are therefore assuming that these objects originate
from some
previously unknown or unidentified technology, possibly
outside the earth.
One of these objects was observed by a Swedish technical expert near
his home on the edge of a lake. The object crashed or landed in the lake
and he carefully noted its azimuth from his
point of observation. Swedish
intelligence was sufficiently
confident in his observation that a naval
salvage team was sent
to the lake. Operations were underway during the
visit of USAFE
officers. Divers had discovered a previously uncharted
crater on
the floor of the lake. No further information is available, but
we have been promised knowledge of the results. In their
opinion, the
observation was reliable, and they believe that the
depression on the floor
of the lake, which did not appear on
current hydrographic charts, was in
fact caused by a flying
saucer.
Although accepting this theory of the origin of these
objects poses a
whole new group of questions and puts much of our
thinking in a changed
light, we are inclined not to discredit
entirely this somewhat spectacular
theory, meantime keeping an
open mind on the subject. What are your
reactions?
T O P S E C R E T
(END OF USAFE ITEM 14)
