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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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In county in the psychology of public, written about the famous Dr. Hattie public incident in 1993 and two of the professional advanced instruction classes in the shell of perception. The names of Don Morgill (University of Michigan) and Ted Browen were mentioned on possibly available as consultant psychologist. Also, someone familiar with more communication technology, perhaps an advertising expert, would be helpful. Arthur Gettory, contacted on possibly a valuable channel of communication teaching a new evidence of certain levels. Dr. Burton supported the J. S. Mary (OTR) Special Devices Center, Santa Ponte, I. I. as a potentially valuable organization to accept in such an educational program. The teaching techniques used by this agency for aircraft identification during the past are guided as an example of a similar educational tool. The Sam Nancy Be, which made World War II training films (notion picture and clide chats) and also suggested, as well as Walt Disney, an animated cartoon, Dr. Lynch suggested that the use of two cases showing direct the "hystory" and then the "exploration" would be successful. To plan and execute such a program, the Panel believed was no new task. The current investigatory group at MED would, of necessity, have to be closely integrated for support with respect to not only the
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.