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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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Vora? (a study in the psychology of panic, written about the famous Oroon Kellee radio broadcast in 1936) and has also performed advanced laboratory studies in the field of perception. The name of Don Marquio (University of Michigan) and Ioo Rosten were mentioned as possibly suitable as consultant psychologist. Also, concerns familiar with mass communication techniques, perhaps an advertising expert, would be helpful. Arthur Coffey was mentioned as possibly a valuable channel of communication reaching a mass audience of certain levels. Dr. Berliner suggested the U. S. Navy (CFR) Special Devices Center, Santa Point, L. I., as a potentially valuable organization to assist in such an educational program. The teaching techniques used by this agency for aircraft identification during the post war was cited as an example of a similar educational task. The San Early Do, which made World War II training films (motion picture and slide strips) was also suggested, as well as Walt Disney, Inc., animated cartoon, Dr. Eynshok suggested that the entire entrepreneurs in the U. S. might be a potential source of college talent to spread the gospel. It was believed that business clubs, high schools, colleges, and television stations would all be pleased to cooperate in the showing of documentary type motion pictures if prepared in an interesting manner. The use of these cases showing first the "rhytony" and then the "explanation" would be forceful. To plan and execute such a program, the Panel believed was no To plan and execute such a program, the Panel followed was no main task. The current investigatory group at ATIC would, of course, have to be closely integrated for support with relevant to not only the
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.