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2013/10/26 by luforu

A2    [Air Force Intelligence]

AA    Anti-Aircraft

AAA    Anti-Aircraft Artillery

AAB    Army Air Base

AAAS    American Association for the Advancement of Science

AAC    Alaskan Air Command

AAF   Army Air Field [precursor of Air Base]

AAF    Army Air Force [precursor of AF]

AARTC    Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center

AB    Air Base

ABW    Air Base Wing

A/C    Aircraft

AC&W    Aircraft Control and Warning

ACOM    Asian Communist [1 of NSA’s 4 major operational divisions]

ADC    Aerospace Defense Command

ADLA    Assistant Director for Legal and Legislative Affairs [NSA]

ADM    Admiral

ADPL    Assistant Director for Policy and Liaison [NSA]

ADPR    Assistant Director for Plans/Resources [NSA]

ADT    Assistant Director for Training [NSA?]

ADVA    Advanced Soviet [1 of 4 major operational divisions of NSA’s production organisation; combined with GENS into a group]

AEC    Atomic Energy Commission

AF    Air Force

AFB    Air Force Base

AFESC    Air Force Electronic Security Command

AFGWC    Air Force Global Weather Control

AFIS    Air Force Intelligence Service

AFOC    Air Force Operations Center

AFOSI   Air Force Office of Special Investigations

AFOSP    Air Force Office of Security Police

AFP    Agence France-Presse

AFR    Air Force Regulation(s)

AFSA    Armed Forces Security Agency

AFSAC    Armed Forces Security Agency Council

AFSC    Air Force Systems Command

AFSS    Air Force Security Council

AFWL    Air Force Weapons Laboratory

AISS    Air Intelligence Service Squadron

ALLO    All Others [1 of 4 major operational divisions of NSA’s production organisation – now known as G Group]

ALP    Advanced Language Programme

Alt    Altitude

AM    Ante-Meridian [before 12.00]

AMB   Ambassador

AMC    Air Materiel Command

AMN    Airman

ANCIB    Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board

ANCICC    Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Co-Ordinating Committee

ANG    Air National Guard

AP    Associated Press

APC    Armed Personnel Carrier?

APG    Aerial Phenomena Group

APN    Associated Press News

APRO    Aerial Phenomena Research Organization

ARC    Ad Hoc Requirements Committee

ARDF    Airborne Radio Direction-Finding

ARFCOS    Armed Forces Courier Service

ARPA    Advanced Research Projects Agency

ARTC    Air Route Traffic Control

ARTCC    Air Route Traffic Control Centre

ASA    Army Security Agency

ASD    Applied Science Division [CIA]

AST    Atlantic Standard Time

ATC   Air Traffic Control(ler)

ATIC    Air Technical Intelligence Center [Air Force]

AWOL    Absent Without Leave

AZ    Arizona, America, North America

BA    British Airways

BAF    Belgian Air Force

BBC    British Broadcasting Corporation

BGen    Brigadier General

BUFORA    British UFO Research Association

BWI    British West Indies?

CA    Civil Affairs

CACEX    Carteira de Comércio Exterior do Banco do Brasil

CAP    Combat Air Patrol

Capt    Captain

CAS    Chief of the Air Staff

CAUS    Citizens Against UFO Secrecy

CAVU    Ceiling And Visibility Unrestricted

CC    Command Center?

Cdr    Commander

CE    Close Encounter

CE1    Close Encounter of the First Kind

CE2    Close Encounter of the Second Kind

CE3    Close Encounter of the Third Kind

CERT    Committee on Energy, Research and Technology

CFS    Canadian Forces Station

CG    Commanding General

CGS    Chief of the General Staff?

CGS    Coast Guard Station

CIA    Central Intelligence Agency

CIC    Counter-Intelligence Corps

CIG    Central Intelligence Group

CINC/NORAD    Commander in Charge, NORAD

CINCPAC    Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Command

CIOVI    Centro de Investigación de Objetos Voladores Inidentificados

CIRVIS    Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings

Civ    Civilian

CNES    Centre National d’Etudes Spatiaux

Co    Company

Col    Colonel

COMINT    Communications Intelligence [NSA]

CP    Command Post

CR    Clarification Request

CSC    Central Security Council [Air Force]

CST    Central Standard Time

CT    Connecticut

CUFORN    Canadian UFO Research Network

CUFOS   Center for UFO Studies

DATT    Defense Attache [US Embassy]

DC    District of Columbia

DCD    Domestic Collections Division [CIA]

DCI    Director of Central Intelligence

DCII    Defense Central Index of Investigations

DCSOPS    Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans [Air Force]

DDO    Deputy Director for Operations [Air Force]

Det    Detachment

DIA    Defense Intelligence Agency

DMO&P    Directorate of Military Operations and Plans

DMZ    Demilitarized Zone

DNI    Director of Naval Intelligence?  Director of National Intelligence?

DO    Duty Officer

Dom Observ    Domestic Observer

DOT    Department of Transport

DPS    Department of Public Safety

Dr    Doctor

DRB    Defence Research Board

DRB    Defence Research Board Committee

DSTI    Department of Scientific and Technical Intelligence

EBE    Extraterrestrial Biological Entity

EC    European Community

EEC    European Economic Community

EM    Electromagnetic

EMP    Electromagnetic Pulse

EST    Eastern Standard Time

ETA    Estimated Time of Arrival

ETH    Extraterrestrial Hypothesis

F    Fahrenheit

FAA    Federal Aviation Administration

FBI    Federal Bureau of Investigation

FISA    Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

F/L    Flight Lieutenant

Fm    Form

FOIA    Freedom of Information Act

FPS    Frames Per Second

Ft    Feet

Ft    Fort

FTD    Foreign Technology Division

FTS    Flying Training School

G2    [Army Intelligence]

GAO    Government Accounting Office

GCA    Ground-Controlled Approach

GCCS    Government Code and Cipher School

GCHQ    Government Communications HQ

GCI    Ground Control Intercept

GENS    General Soviet [1 of 4 major operational divisions of NSA’s production organisation; combined with ADVA into “a group”]

GEPAN    Groupe d’Etude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-Identifiés

GG    Government Grade [used in place of GS1 to GS10 – only for Government employees for, eg, NSA]

GMT    Greenwich Mean Time

GOC    Ground Observer Corps

Govt    Government

GSW    Ground Saucer Watch

HFDF    High-Frequency Direction Finding

Hon    Honourable

HQ    Headquarters

HUAC    House Un-American Activities Committee

HUMINT    Human Intelligence

I    Interstate [highway]

IAC    Intelligence Advisory Committee

ICI    Intelligence Collection Instructions

ICI    Interagency Committee on Intelligence

ICUFON    Intercontinental UFO Galactic Spacecraft Research and Analytic Network

IDA-CRD    Institute for Defense Analysis – Communications Research Division

IDP    Intercept Deployment Plan

IEC    Intelligence Evaluation Commitee

ILS    Instrument Landing System

In    Inch

INF    Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces

INS    International News Service

INSCOM    Intelligence and Security Command [US Army]

INTELPOST    International Electronic Post

INTELSAT    International Telecommunications Satellite

INYSA    Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, USAF, Science and Technology branch, Directorate of Response Management

INZ    Aerospace Intelligence Division [AFIS]

INZA    Editing, Debriefing and Continuity Branch [AFIS]

IPB    Intercept Priorities Board

IPU    Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit

IR    Infrared

ITN    Independent Television News

ITV    Independent Television

JACL    Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division [USAF]

JANAP    Joint Army/Navy/Air Force Publication

JCS    Joint Chiefs of Staff

JIC    Joint Intelligence Committee

JIS    Joint Intelligence Staff

JOSAF    Joint Operations Support Activity – Frankfurt

JPL    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jr    Junior

JRC    Joint Reconnaissance Center

JRDB    Joint Research and Development Board

JSPC    Joint SOBE Processing Center

JTLS    Joint Technical Language Serivce

KAFB    Kirtland Air Force Base

KGB    Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti [Committee for State Security – USSR]

KISR    Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

KM    Kilometre

KMH    Kilometres Per Hour

KS    Kansas

KW    Kilowatts

LASP    Low Altitude Surveillance Platform

Lb    Pounds [weight]

LCF    Launch Control Facility [Air Force]

LEM    Lunar Exploration Module

LOB    Raymond E Linn Operations Building

LPMEDLEY    [CIA cryptonm for an operation in support of the NSA]

LRTS    Long Range Technical

Lt    Lieutenant

Lt Cdr    Lieutenant Commander

Ltd    Limited

LUFOS    London UFO Studies

M    Monsieur

M5    [NSA Office of Security]

Maj    Major

MEP    Member of the European Parliament

MI-8    Military Intelligence Section 8 [codes and ciphers]

MIB    Men In Black

MID    Military Intelligence Division

MIT    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mlle    Mademoiselle

MO    Missouri

MOD    Ministry of Defence

MP    Member of Parliament

MP    Military Policeman

MPH    Miles Per Hour

MPRO    Machine Processing Section of NSA’s production organisation

MPS    Manipulations Per Sequence

MSL    Mean Sea Level

MST    Mountain Standard Time

Mt    Mount

MUFON    Mutual UFO Network

MW    Megawatts

NASA    National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NAVSPASUR    Naval Space Surveillance System

NCOC    National Combat Operations Center

NDI    Near-Death Experience

NDRC    National Defense Research Committee

NEPA    Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft

NIA    Naval Intelligence Agency

NICAP    National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena

NM    Nautical Mile

NM    New Mexico

NMCC    National Military Command Center

NMPH    Nautical Miles Per Hour

No    Number

NORAD    North American Aerospace Defense Command

NPIC    National Photographic Interpretation Center

NRC    National Research Council [Canada]

NRL    Naval Research Laboratory

NSA    National Security Agency

NSC    National Security Council

NSF    National Science Foundation

NYPD    New York Police Department

OAM    Operation Animal Mutilation

OCI    Office of Current Intelligence

OFI    Office of Federal Investigation

OH    Ohio

OMI    Office of Military Intelligence?

ONI    Office of Naval Intelligence

ORTK    Operation Right To Know

OSI    Office of Scientific Intelligence [CIA]

OSI    Office of Special Investigations [Air Force]

OSRD    Office of Scientific Research and Development

OSS    Office of Strategic Services

PAA    Pan-American Airways

PFC    Private First Class

PIL    Photographic Interpretation Laboratory

PM    Post-Meridian [after 12.00]

PR    Public Relations

PR    Puerto Rico

Prof    Professor

PSAC   President’s Science Advisory Committee

PSAPR    Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research Inc

PSI    Project Starlight International

R&D    Research and Development

RAAF    Roswell Army Air Field

RAAF    Royal Australian Air Force

RAF    Royal Air Force

RAPCOM    Radar Approach Communications

RAPCON    Radar Approach Control

RATCC    Radar Air Traffic Control Center

RBAF    Royal Belgian Air Force

RCMP    Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Ret    Retired

RPV    Remotely Piloted Vehicle

RG    Record Group

SA    Special Agent

SAC   Strategic Air Command

SAC/HO   Strategic Air Command Office of History

SACEUR    Supreme Allied Commander Europe

SAF    Secretary of the Air Force

SAFOI    Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information

SAO    Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

SAS    Special Air Service

SBI    Special Background Investigation

SDC    Space Defense Center

SDI    Strategic Defense Initiative

SDS    Students for a Democratic Society

Sen    Senator

SEPRA    Service d’Expertise des Phénomènes de Rentrée Atmosphérique

Sgt    Sergeant

SHAEF    Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

SIGINT    Signals Intelligence [NSA]

SIGLEX    Special Interest Group on Lexicography

SIGTRAN    Special Interest Group on Translation

SIGVOICE    Special Interest Group on Voice

SIPG    Special Intercept Priorities Group

SIS    Signal Intelligence Service

S/L    Squadron Leader

SLR    Single Lens Reflex

SOBEPS    Société Belgique d’Etude des Phénomènes Spatiaux

SOLIS    Sigint Online Intelligence System

SPADATS    Space Detection and Tracking System [NORAD]

SPGp    Scientific Planning Group

SPS    Security Police Squadron

Sr    Señor

Sra    Señora

SSA    Signal Security Agency

SSAN    Social Security Account Number

SSB    Soft Support Building [USAF]

S/Sgt    Staff Sergeant

SSP    Special Studies Project

SVHS    Super VHS

TID    Technical Intelligence Division

TIA    Temperature Inversion Analysis

TID    Technical Intelligence Division

UAO    Unidentified Aerial Object

UFO    Unidentified Flying Object(s)

UFOB    Unidentified Flying Object(s)

UFOIS    UFO Information Service

UFORC    UFO Reporting Center

UHF    Ultra-High Frequency

UN    United Nations

UPI    United Press International

UPS    United Parcels Service

URE    Unidentified Radar Echo

US    United States

USA    United States of America

USAAF    United States Army Air Force

USAF    United States Air Force

USG    United States Government

USN    United States Navy

UV    Ultraviolet

VAR    Visual And Radar

VAR    Visual-Aural Radio Range

VC    [Rate of closure]

VCR    Video Cassette Recorder

VHF    Very High Frequency

VUFORS    Victorian UFO Research Society

WATC    Wellington Air Traffic Control

WF     Wright Field AFB

WH    White House

W-PAFB    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Z    Zulu [universal time]

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