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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.

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MERCHANT FOR: Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence

FROM P. C. Durand

SUBJECT Report of Markings of the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 34 - 18, 1953

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The purpose of this treatment is to procure

a. A brief history of the meetings of the O/SI Advisory Panel On Unidentified Flying Objects (Part I),

D. An unofficial supporter to the official Prelim Report to AD/82 noting North comments and suggestions of the Panel Members which they believed were inappropriate for inclusion in the Second report (Part II).

PART 71 BEGINNING OF THE SEQUENCE

GRAHAM

After consideration on the subject of Purifiedified flying object" at the 4 December posting of the Intelliger to History Committee, the following notice was given:

*The Director of Control Intelligence will:

a. Explain the importance of collected evidence in

nurseries and cymes the available evidence in the

light of postmortem evidence.

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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.