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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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from the centre of the screen, if it still appeared at all. Dr. Alvarez finds such a steel solution was similar and would cost much less than a "doppler filter". BAL PETROLEIA Two reported cases were examined at Falcon Mountain, California, in October 1949, when comic ray counters went "off scale for a few seconds", apparently while a "7" of flying cautions was observed virtually and two, a series of observations by the Los Alamos Bird Watchers Association, from August 1950 to January 1951, when comic ray coincidence counters behaved quiescent. Circuit diagrams and records were available for the letter, and Dr. Alvarez was able quickly to point out that the recorded data were unhoubility due to instrumental efforts that would have been recognized as such by more experienced observers. The organization that radioactive objects were correlated with identified flying objects in these two cases was, therefore, rejected by the Panel. EXCITATIONAL PROGRAM The Fond's concept of a breed educational program integrating efforts of all concerned agencies was that it should have two major uses training and "discunking". The training aer would result in proper recognition of naturally illuminated objects (e.g., balloons, aircraft reflections) as well as natural phenomena (e.g., stars, fireballs, meteors, nebulous clouds). Both visual and under recognition are concerned. There would be many
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