British activity in the Field of "Unidentified Flying Objects

Provisional — pending primary verification

Stated date

December, 1952

Location

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Agency

CIA

Official status

unresolved

Corroborated

Evidence strength

How solid the official record is — source authority, corroboration, evidence quality, provenance, and disposition.

Partially Explained

Anomaly level

How far officials are from explaining it. Unexplained means officials haven’t explained it — never that it is extraterrestrial.

[war.gov] A December 1952 Memo on the activities the British are taking to identify UFOs. The memo references a UFO sighting at an RAF field seen by high officials and RAF pilots. A more redacted version of the memo has been available on CIA's public website.

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