"ABOVE TOP SECRET", Timothy Good, Chapter 12, Page 375:

                    "SERIOUS USAF BUSINESS"

  On 24 December 1959 the Air Force issued the following warning
to every air base commander in the continental United States:

     Unidentified flying objects - sometimes treated lightly by the
     press and referred to as "flying saucers" - must be rapidly and
     accurately identified as serious USAF business in the ZI
     [Interior Zone]. ....."

  The following is a statement by Vice Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter, former Director of the CIA (1947-50) and NICAP
committee member. The quote is taken from "ABOVE TOP SECRET",
Timothy Good, Chapter 12, Page 376:

  ' "It is time for the truth to be brought out in open congressional
   hearings", he said. "Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force
  officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official
  secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown
  flying objects are nonsense," and he charged that "to hide the facts,
  the Air Force has silenced its personnel" through the issuance of a
  regulation. '


"ABOVE TOP SECRET", Timothy Good, Chapter 14, Page 443:

  ' Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, Chief of the Aeriel Phenomena Branch, Air
    Technical Intelligence Center, said that the CIA ordered the Air
    Force to debunk sightings and discredit witnesses. "We're ordered to
    hide sightings when possible," he told Major Keyhoe, "but if a
    strong report does get out we have to publish a fast explanation -
    make up something to kill the report in a hurry, and also ridicule
    the witness, especially if we can't figure a plausible answer. We
    even have to discredit our own pilots." '


  The following statement is again from Vice Admiral Roscoe
Hillenkoetter. "ABOVE TOP SECRET", Timothy Good, Chapter 14, Page 453-454:

  ' In a signed statement dated 22 August 1961, sent to Congress,
    Hillenkoetter said:

     It is time for the truth to be brought out....Behind the scenes
     high-ranking Air Force Officers are soberly concerned about the
     UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are
     led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense....I urge
     immediate Congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy
     about Unidentified Flying Objects....Two dangers are steadily
     increasing:

       1. The risk of accidental war from mistaking UFO formations for a
          Soviet surprise attack.
       2. The danger that the soviet government may, in a critical
          moment, falsely claim the UFOs as secret Russian weapons
          against which our defences are helpless.  '

"ABOVE TOP SECRET", Timothy Good, Chapter 14, Page 454-455:

  ' Another former CIA official on the board of NICAP was Colenel Joseph
    J. Bryan III, founder and original Chief of the CIA's Psychological
    Warfare Staff, and former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the
    Air Force as well as aviation advisor to NATO. In a letter to
    Keyhoe, Colenel Bryan made the following positive statement on the
    UFO problem:

      I am aware that hundreds of military and airline pilots, airport
      personnel, astronomers, missle trackers and other competent
      observers have reported sightings of UFOs. I am also aware that
      many of these UFOs have been reported maneuvering in formation,
      and that many were simultaneously tracked by radar. It is in my
      opinion that:  The UFOs reported by competent observers are
      devices under intelligent control. Their speeds, maneuvers and
      other technical evidence prove them to be superior to any known
      aircraft or space devices now produced on earth. These UFOs are
      interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either
      manned, or under remote control, or both. Information on UFOs,
      including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially
      withheld. This policy is dangerous, especially since mistaken
      identification of UFOs as a secret Russian attack might
      accidentally set off war. Unless this policy is changed, a
      Congressional investigation should be held to reduce or eliminate
      this and other dangers. '