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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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## GENERAL

The Panel Members were impressed (as have been others, including O/SI personnel) in the lack of sound data in the great majority of case histories; also, in the lack of sparse follow-up due primarily to the modest size and limited facilities of the ATIJ station continued. Among the case histories of significant eightings discussed in Detail were the following:

Bollofontaino, Ohio (1 August 1952); Tremonton, Utah (2 July 1952); Great Falls, Montana (15 August 1950); Frank, Iowa (1 September 1952); Washington, D. C. once (19 July 1952); and Named A.F.B., Japan (5 August 1952), Fort Worth, Michigan (29 July 1952); and Prozus Iolo, Nebraska (30 October 1952).

After review and discussion of those cases (and about 25 others, in less detail), the Panel concluded that reasonable explanations could be suggested from most sightings and fly detection and scientific notation it could be induced (given additional data) that other cases might be explained in a similar manner. The Panel pointed out that because of the brevity of some sightings (e.g. 203 seconds) and the imbility of the witnesses to express themselves clearly (quantize) that conclusive explanations could not be expected for every case reported. Furthermore, it was considered that, normally, it would be a great waste of effort to try to solve most of the sightings, unless such action would benefit a training and educational program (see below). The writings of Charles Pere were referenced to this

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