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

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awareness of security measures near such locations. On the other hand, there had been no sightings in the vicinity of sensitive related AE establishments while there were occasionally multiplo cases of unexplained sightings in non-strategic areas. Furthermore, there appeared to be no logical relationship to population centers. The Panel could find no ready explanation for these clusters. It was noted, however, that if terrestrial artifacts were to be observed it would be likely that they would be soon first near foreign areas rather than central U. 8.

PISTRAL MUCH TO CREATE DATA

The Panel was of the opinion that the present AT1G program to place 100 inexpensive 35 m. stereo cameras in the hards of various airport control tower operators would probably produce little valuable data related to 0,1,0, 's. However, it was recognized that such action would tend to allay public concern in the subject until an educational program had taken effect. It was believed that procurement of these cameras was purely the result of public pressure in July 1952. With the poor results of the year-long Project TWENTLE program of 24-hour instrumentation watch (two frames of film showing nothing distinguishable), a widespread program of chy-watching would not be expected to yield much direct data of value.

There was considerable discussion of a possible "sky patrol" by amateur astronomers (Lynak) and by wide-angle cameras (Page). Dr. Fago and Dr. Robertson pointed out that at present a considerable function

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