Documents / FOIA release

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.

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

levols in much education from enlisted personnel to command and research personnel. Relative emphasis and degree of explanation of different programs would correspond to the categories of duty (e.g. radar operators pilots; control tower operators; Ground Observer Corps personnel; and officers and enlisted men in other categories.) This training should result in a marked reduction in reports caused by misidentification and resultant confusion.

The "defining" can would result in reduction in public attention in "flying causal" which todayokes a strong psychological reaction. This education could be accomplished by a media such as television, motion pictures, and popular circulation. Built of such education would be actual once histories which had been pertaining to these but later explained. An in the case of conjuring truths, there are such long retentions if the "secret" is known. Such a program should tend to reduce the current gullibility of the public and consequently those susceptibility to elusive bevelling propaganda. The French noted that the general abhorn of Russian propaganda; based on a subject with no any obvious possibility for exploitation might indicate a possible Russian official policy.

Members of the Rael had various suggestions related to the plan

lady of each an observational program. In the State of Georgia the

psychologist instituted with the psychologist should do on the nature

and content of the programs. In this connection, Dr. B. Day Gouwalt.

(where the talk was held) was an assistant in the National "Reunion for

Cases discussed

About this file

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.