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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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would be the photographing of "pillow balloons" at different distances under similar weather conditions at the site. The help of one or two psychologists and writers and a subcontractor to produce training films would be necessary in addition. The panel considered that ATIO's efforts, temporarily curried on necessity, could be most useful in implementing any action taken as a result of its recommendations. Experience and records on ATIO would be of value in both the public educational and service training program envisaged by Dr. Robertson as least was of the opinion that after public guilt, lessened and the service organizations, such as ATIO, had been trained to sift one the most widely explained symptoms, there would still be a need for a very non-negotiated ATIO session to cope with the residues of possible scientific inhalation value. This section would concentrate on energetically following up (partly on the results of qualified Air Force Scientific Advisory Board members) those cases which seemed to indicate the evidence of misconvenience, acting antifreeze. Receipt of such evidence would be expected to act as useful from the open outputs in far closer proximity to the Iran Gorilla time frame. The annual meeting of the association of such groups as "Miss Alice Ellis of Concord, New Hampshire" (The Concord) and the "Amelia Ephmanoe of New Hampshire" (The Ephmanoe) have held several times each year, but the position has not been defined because of these potentiality
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.