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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum by F. C. Durant reports on the January 1953 meetings of the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, chaired by Dr. H. P. Robertson. It covers the history of the sessions and the panel members' comments on individual cases, radar interference, instrumentation and an educational program. The panel concluded unanimously that the sightings showed no direct threat to national security. It recommended training and public education to strip UFOs of their special status.
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of the sky is now and has been for many years under surveillance every clear night in several noteworthy and curious observing programs as well as sky mapping programs at the various locations listed below. Although the attention of those astronomers is largely directed toward identified rather than unidentified objects, no case of any striking unidentified object is known to Dr. Page or Dr. Lynch. Such an object would most certainly be reported if found on patrol plates. A case was cited where an astronomer refused to interrupt his exposure in order to photograph an alleged sighting in a different part of the sky. This led Dr. Lynch to say that, if a program of watching could be an adjunct of planned astronomical programs, little cost would be involved and that the trained astronomical personnel might photograph a sighting of an unidentified object. The location of some of these programs and their directors are believed to be ___. a. Harvard University, Cambridge and New Mexico (meteor patrol)—Wipplo. b. Yorkee Observatory, University of Chicago and Fort Dodge, Texas (several programs)—Molnol (nucorace), Eulper (asteroids), Morgan (wide angle camera). c. University of Alaska, Fairbanks (aureora) - Ilroy 4. Dominion Observatory, Ottawa (noteora)—Illinois a. Palmer Observatory, California (sky cap) - Kinkowski f. Id. in Coronaryy, California (mig. map)—Shino
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. 32 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.