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Illegible (Report by Durant of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unident Ified

Central Intelligence Agency · 1956-01-02 · 23 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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(so long term of course) by the lack of co2 count data in the great majority

c. the first thing also, in the lack of co2 capacity following the yr21

t. the first thing also, in the lack of co2 capacity following the yr21

f. the first thing also, in the lack of co2 capacity following the yr21

g. the first thing also, in the lack of co2 capacity following the yr21

Huntington, Ohio (2 August 1952); Fenton, Ohio (2 July 1952); South Dakota, Montana (19 August 1950); Eck, Kentucky (1 September 1959); Washington, D. C. area (29 July 1952); and Kentucky A.7 ...

Cuyler (5 August 1952), New York, Michigan (29 July 1952); and Bacquoy, Maine (29 October 1952).

After review and discussion of these cases (and about 75 others in the county), the Panel concluded that reasonable explanations could be suggested for most sightings and fly collection and collection. It could be included (given additional data) that other counts might be explained in a similar manner. The Panel pointed out that because of the invensity of some sightings (e.g., 2-3 occurrences) and the frequency of the mites, the results themselves clearly (scientifically) that no conclusive explanation would not be expected for every case reported. Furthermore, it was considered that, normally, it would be a great nuance of effort to collect most of the sightings. Each option would involve a training and educational program.

The findings of the Office Port were referenced to show

Cases discussed

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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.