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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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conclusions reached. A general discussion followed and tentative recommendations considered. To us we agreed that the Chairman should draft a report of the Panel to AD/SI that reviewing for review by the Panel the next terming. The meeting adjourned at 1715. At 0945 the Chairman opened the meeting and submitted a rough draft of the Prelim Report to the members. This draft had been reviewed and approved earlier by Dr. Dykes. The next two and one-half hours were continued in discussion and revision of the draft. At 1100 the AD/Si joined the meeting and reported that he had shown and discussed a copy of the initial rough draft to the Director of Intelligence, USAF, whose reaction was favorable. At 1200 the meeting was adjourned. As 1/1/00 the oignth and final review of the Fural was opened, discussion and re-reading of certain contents of the Reporter occupied the first hours. A copy of the Final report is appended as Tab C.) This was followed by a review of very accomplished by the Fural and re-reading of individual Fural numbers and suggestions on details that were first in line, opposite for publication in the Fural report. It was agreed that the volume would an aggregate these elements in an influential report to the 10/02. The next will follow.
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.