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

Central Intelligence Agency · 1953-01-01 · 32 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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Purpose 1

Part I: History of Meetings of Panel 1

Part II: Comments and Suggestions of Panel 7

General 7

On Lack of Danger 8

Air Force Reporting System 9

Artifacts of Interventional Origin 10

Trenzont, Utah, Sightings 11

Potential Related Fuges 25

Geographic Locations of Unexplained Sightings 15

Instrumentation to Obtain Data 16

Roder Problem of Visual Interference 18

Unexplained Cosmic Ray Progression 19

Educational Program 19

Udofficial Investigating Groups 23

Increase in Number of Sightings 24

Report of Panel Tab A

List of Personnel Consumed with Meetings Tab B

List of Accountant Duties Trained Tab C

Cases discussed

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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.