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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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## THURSDAY 12:00 The third and fourth meetings of the Panel were held Thursday, 15 January, commencing at 0900 with a two-hour break for lunchoon. Bealdes Panel members and CIA personnel, Mr. Ruppolt and Dr. Hynck were present for both sessions. In the morning, Mr. Ruppolt continued his briefing on ATTO collection and analysis procedures. The Project STORK support at Battello Memorial Institute, Columbus, was described by Dr. Hynck. A number of case histories were discussed in detail and a motion picture film of seagulls was shown. A two-hour break for lunch was taken at 1200. THURSDAY AFTERNOON At 2400 hours Lt. Col. Oler gave a 40-minute briefing of Project TWINKLE, the investigatory project conducted by the Air Force Meteorological Research Center at Cambridge, Mass. In this briefing he pointed out the many problems of setting up and running 24-hour instrumentation watches of patrol cameras searching for sightings of U.F.O. e. At 1615 Exig. Gen. William M. Garland joined the meeting with AD/SI. General Garland expressed his support of the Family efforts and stated three personal options: a. That creator use of Air Force intelligence officers in use should (for follow up investigation) appear undesirable, but that they required thorough briefings.
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.