Government / Military

Herbert Scoville Jr.

1955

CIA Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence who investigated Senator Russell's 1955 Transcaucasus sighting. Concluded the witnesses' account had likely been exaggerated by intermediate retellings and that the objects were probably conventional jet aircraft in a steep climb, writing the evidence was "not sufficiently firm to warrant the conclusion that the Soviets have developed and have in operation a radically new type of aircraft."

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Connections (5)

confirmedProject Y (Avrocar)

cited it internally as evidence unconventional saucer-like aircraft were within engineering reach

Source: Avro Canada Project Y / VZ-9 Avrocar declassified history

confirmedRobertson Panel

cited its prior conclusion that UFO sightings posed no security threat

Source: CIA Robertson Panel report (1953)

confirmedGen. John A. Samford

suggested he brief the IAC on the classified Avro Project Y program

Source: Avro Canada Project Y / VZ-9 Avrocar declassified history

disputedCol. E.U. Hathaway

assessed his corroborating testimony as inflated relative to the observations

disputedRichard B. Russell Jr.

investigated his 1955 sighting and concluded the account had been exaggerated

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