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This Central Intelligence Agency file sends the Intelligence Advisory Committee the report of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met 14 to 17 January 1953 under H. P. Robertson. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security or of hostile foreign artifacts. It said that continued emphasis on UFO reporting could clog communication channels, and it recommended stripping the subject of its special status. The file also lists the evidence reviewed and the participants, and records CIA's conclusion that no NSCID was warranted.
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# SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON # UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS # 14-17 January 1953 ## EVIDENCE PRESENTED 1. Seventy-five case histories of sightings 1951 - 1952 (selected by ATIC as those best documented). 2. ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project GRUOGE and Project BLUE BOOK (code names for ATIC study of subject). 3. Progress Reports of Project STORK (code name for Pattello Memorial Institute contract work supporting ATIC). 4. Summary Report of Sightings at Hollecan Air Force Base, New Mexico. 5. Report of USAF Research Center, Cambridge, Mass., Investigation of "Green Fireball" Phenomena (Project TWINKLE). 6. Outline of Investigation of U.F.O.'s Proposed by Kirtland Air Force Base (Project POUNCE). 7. Motion Picture Films of eightings at Tremonton, Utah, 2 July 1952 and Great Falls, Montana, August 1950. 8. Summary Report of 89 selected cases of sightings of various categories (Formations, Elirking Lights, Hovering, etc.). 9. Draft of manual: "How to Make a PLYOERPT", prepared at ATIC. 10. Chart Showing Plot of Geographic Location of Unexplained Sightings in the United States during 1952. 11. Chart Showing Balloon Launching Sites in the United States. 12. Charts Showing Selected Actual Ballcon Flight Paths and Relation to Reported Sightings. 13. Charts Showing Frequency of Reports of Sightings, 1948 - 1952. 24. Charts Showing Categories of Explanations of Sightings. 15. Rodachrome Transparencies of Polyethylons Film Balloons in Bright Sunlight Showing High Reflectivity.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.