ATIC: Staff study by Col. Shoop urges moving UFO program to ARDC and phasing it out
On September 28, 1959, ATIC issued a staff study by Col. Richard R. Shoop reassessing its UFO investigating role; it recommended transferring the UFO program to the Air Research and Development Command and then running a public relations campaign aimed at 'the eventual elimination of the program as a special project.'
Background
On September 28, 1959, ATIC issued a staff study by Col. Richard R. Shoop that reassessed its role in investigating UFOs. The study recommended that the UFO program be transferred to the Air Research and Development Command, which had better scientific capabilities. It further recommended that an effective public relations campaign then be implemented with the goal of 'the eventual elimination of the program as a special project.' The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.