The memo released as PURSUE Release 03 item CIA-UAP-019 ('Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem', 12 Jun 2026) is officially described as 'dated to 1971, an Australian review of the USAF Project Blue Book' and 'released by the National Archives of Australia.' Its text says the US 'chose to support six universities and government agencies' in gravity research and names gravity research centres including the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton. Authorship by Harry Turner is graded separately; the fetched text does not show his name.
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| documents | raw.githubusercontent.com | Official PURSUE metadata (mirrored from war.gov release_03): CIA-UAP-019, release date 6/12/26; 'Dated to 1971, an Australian review of the USAF Project Blue Book. This document was released by the National Archives of Australia.' |
| documents | raw.githubusercontent.com | OCR of the released memo (zexiro mirror): US 'chose to support six universities and government agencies'; gravity research centres incl. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| documents | americanalchemymagazine.substack.com | memo is genuine per National Archives of Australia |
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The memo released as PURSUE Release 03 item CIA-UAP-019 ('Australian Dept of Defense Scientific and Intel Aspects of the UFO Problem', 12 Jun 2026) is officially described as 'dated to 1971, an Australian review of the USAF Project Blue Book' and 'released by the National Archives of Australia.' Its text says the US 'chose to support six universities and government agencies' in gravity research and names gravity research centres including the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton. Authorship by Harry Turner is graded separately; the fetched text does not show his name.
See The 1971 Australian UFO memo was written by O.H. Turner, head of the Joint Intelligence Organisation's Nuclear Branch and Turner memo (1971).