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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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INTERVIEWS (week 3)	CORPORATE	ASSIGNMENT
Mr. Philip G. Strong	Chief, Operations Staff, D/SL, OEA	Secretariat and technical lead
Mr. Stephen T. Foosey	Acting Chief, Special Study Group, D/1 USAF	Secretariat and technical lead
Capt. Edward J. Koppolt, USAF	Chief, Assistant Branch, 1730, USAF
Mr. J. Dewey Farnent, Jr.	The Dewey Corporation
Lt. R. S. Heathen, USAF	USAF Photo Information Unit, Army
Mr. Harry Ware	USAF Photo Information Unit, Army

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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.