Herbert Scoville Jr.

Registry record

Past roles

CIA official; author of the 21 Sept 1957 Watch Committee memorandum

Credentials

CIA official

UAP involvement

Memorandum recording the Intelligence Advisory Committee Watch Committee review of the Montauk-Benton alert

Principal disclosures

Watch Committee judged Soviet involvement highly improbable

Evidence contributed

Primary interagency memorandum

Knowledge type

Institutional (official correspondence)

Corroboration

CIA document 0005516030; CUFON transcription

Assessment

Documented national-security review; not confirmation of a craft

Last reviewed

2026-11-12

Evidence (1)

• Watch Committee memorandum judges Soviet involvement in the Sept 20 alert highly improbable DocumentedSecondhand
  E-V99-014 · 1957-09-21 · Intelligence memorandum