CONFIDENTIAL
TIN FOIL HAT TALKS
SITE S-4 ANNEX · BUILDING 7
MEMORANDUM
| DATE: | 14 AUG 1994 |
|---|---|
| FROM: | Office of Plausible Explanations |
| TO: | All Public-Facing Staff |
| SUBJECT: | Approved Explanations, Revision 4 |
1. Effective this date the Agency assumes a public-facing role: to investigate and explain unexplained phenomena. Every inquiry will receive an explanation. No inquiry will receive the truth unless the truth is also an approved explanation.
2. The following explanations are approved for general use and may be issued without supervisory review:
- a. Weather balloon (any object, any size, any speed)
- b. Swamp gas (lights near water; may be extended to lights near anything)
- c. The planet Venus (any light in the sky; preferred)
- d. Flares from a training exercise (formations)
- e. Reflections, lens flare, or sensor artifact (photographs and radar)
- f. Wind (anything else)
- g. A bear (anything with fur)
3. Staff will never confirm the existence of Building 7, Object , , or the terminal.
4. If a member of the public asks about the terminal specifically, respond: "There is no such computer." Do not elaborate. Do not say where it is. .
5. Explanations must be delivered calmly. The Agency is never surprised.
Chief, Office of Plausible Explanations
CONFIDENTIAL
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