Report of Meetings of the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific a Dvisor

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have been so labeled. It was interesting that in at least two cases reviewed that the object eighted was categorized by Robertson and Alvarez as probably "Foe Fighters", to date unexplained but not dangerous; they were not happy thus to dismiss the sightings by calling them nonsens. It was their feeling that these phenomena are not beyond the domain of present knowledge of physical science, however.

It was the Panel's opinion that some of the Air Force concern over U.F.O.'s (notwithstanding Air Defence Command and duty over fast radar tracks) was probably caused by public pressure. The result today in that the Air Force has instituted a fine channel for receiving reports of nearly anything occurring in the sky and fails to understand. This has been particularly encouraged in popular articles on this and other subjects, such as space travel and science fiction. The result is the mass receipt of low-grade reports which tend to overload channels of communication with material quite irrelevant to hostile objects that might come day appear. The Panel agreed generally that this mass of poor-quality reports containing little, if any, scientific data was of no value. Quite the opposite, it was possibly dangerous in having a military service foster public concern in "northern wandering lights". The implication being, since the interested agency was military, that these objects were or night to potential direct threats to national security. Accordingly, the need for decompression made itself apparent. Comments on a possible educational program are enumerated below.

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