From: Jan Aldrich <jan@CYBERZONE.NET>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:45:03 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 11:33:03 -0500
Subject: Project 1947 - 'Ghost of the Estimate' II

In the in the TOP SECRET Current Intelligence Branch of the HQ, USAF
Intelligence files at Archives II, in College Park, Maryland, are two
copies of "Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States.
Study No. 203.  (Items are filed by their Top Secret control number.

Control Number (CN) 2 6167 is a typed draft of the document. The other
copy, Control Number 2-7341 (There are several other control numbers on
the document, perhaps for different origanizations.  However, this is the
last one.) is printed.  I will deal with the printed copy in a later
posting.

The draft (CN 2-6167) was produced in five copies which went to:

     USAF:  Air Intelligence Requirement Division       #1 and #3
     USAF:  Air Estimates Branch                         #4
     Office of Naval Intelligence                        #2
     USAF:  Air Intelligence Division                    #5

The surviving copy is #3.  It was declassified of 5 March 1985.

Attached to the draft is the following hand written note:

     "All extra copies of this document were ordered to be destroyed.

     "Cy [Copy] being kept for record purposes only.  Not to be
disseminated without permission of AFOIN-A.

                "see 2-7341

               /s/ "C Vaudolf [??? signature hard to read]

                 6 Dec 51"

The note is written on a Memo Routing Slip, DD Form 95 which is commonly
called a "buck slip" from the American slang "to pass the buck"  ie give
the problem to someone else.

Jan Aldrich