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This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 1956-01-02, is the Durant report of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects. Its extracted text is badly garbled. The report records the Panel's view that most reviewed sightings had reasonable explanations and that the objects showed no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It discusses the Tremonton and Great Falls films and World War II foo fighters. It also recommends an educational and training program and warns that heavy volumes of reports could clog military reporting channels.
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(2) By the rule of sound data in the great majority c. the first three also in the 2nd of 2nd body 2nd c2 the AE2J coobles goo... As in the instance of negligence ofighting discussed in c. Hoffmanville, Ohio (2 August 1952); Erie, Ontario, Canada (2 July 1952); Eckh, National (1 September 1952); Washington, D. O. once (29 July 1952); and Kennebunk, A. T. (3 August 1952); Not Rivers, Michigan (29 July 1952); and Decker Lake, Nassau (2 October 1952). In their review and description of these cases (and about 35 others in this document), the Panel concluded that reasonable explanations could be requested for most sightings and fly detection and collection that could be included (given additional data) that other cases might be examined in a similar manner. The Panel pointed out that because of the lowity of some sightings (e.g. 2-3 occurrences) and the infrequency of the mites, express themselves clearly (sensitivity). The conclusive explanations would not be expected for every case reported. Furthermore, it was conditioned that, normally, it would be a great nuance of effort to try to colve most of the sightings. With such action would it be a training and educational program (continued). The writings of Charles Port were referenced to show
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. 23 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.