Documents / FOIA release
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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On the other hand, there is little evidence in the vicinity of countries involved in the conflict that there were considerably different causes of unanticipated effects in non-strategic areas. Furthermore, these appear to be no regional relationship to population contours. The Dutch could deal no nicely explanation for these classifications. It was not, however, that no domesticual conflict would be observed if it would be likely that it would be seen firstly near Foreign areas rather than central T, B. The Panel was of the opinion that the present ATTJ program to place 200 inexpensive 95 mm, stereo cameras in the hands of various airport control tower operators would probably produce little value that would be noticed to U.T.O.% . However, it was recognized that such action would tend to alien public concern in the subject until an educational program had taken effect. It was believed that pre-ventance of these cameras was partly the result of public pressure in July 1952. With the poor results of the yearlong Project III, the program of 24-hour instrumentation watch (two frames of 205 min showing nothing distinguishable), a widespread program of air-weathering would not be expected to yield much direct data of value. There was considerable discussion of a possible "city patrol" by aircraft environs (Hyndel) and by wide-angle cameras (Pugo). Dr. and Dr. Robertson pointed out that it present a considerable practice.
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.