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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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1. Pursuant to the request of the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, the undersigned Panel of Scientific Consultants has not t evaluate any possible threat to national security posed by Unidentified Flying Objects ("Flying Saucers"), and to make recommendations thorooo The Panel has received the evidence an presented by cognizant intelligence agencies, primarily the Air Technical Intelligence Center, and he reviewed a selection of the best documented incidents.
2. As a result of its considerations, the Panel concludes
a. That the evidence presented on unidentified Flying Objects above no indication that these phenomena constitute
a direct physical threat to national security We firmly believe that there is no residue of cases which instigate phenomena which are attributable to foreign artifacts capable of real acts, and that there is no evidence that such phenomena constitute for the revision of our current understandings.
## 3. The Panel further concludes
a. That the continued emba
these phenomena does, in the way that these results in
threat to the orderly functioning of the protective organ
of the body politic.
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