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Jan 21, 2016 the cia declassified hundreds of documents in 1978 detailing the agencys investigations into unidentified flying objects ufos. Download the pdf of the booklet eastern illinois university. Declassified documents reference service post world war ii1970s indexing and full text access to a rich collection of declassified documents from various government agencies, including the white house, the cia, the fbi, the state department, and others covering events following world war ii. As this recently declassified image shows, this unidentified object evidently crashed for unknown reasons.
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