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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interacting that in at least two cases normally, that the object sighted was categorized by Robert Minnage as possibly "The Dightero", to date unexplained but dangerous they were not happy thus to describe the sighting by calling them names. To the theirooking that these phenomena are and beyond the confin of present knowledge of physical chemistry to It was the Panol's question that some of the Air Force concern (notwithstanding Mr. Defense Command anxiety over military troops) was probably caused by public pressure. The result clearly is that the Air Force has instituted a time channel for receiving reports of deadly anything anyone sees in the city and finds to understand. This has been particularly encouraged in papers criticizing this and other subjects, such as space travel and science fiction. The result is the mere receipt of long-range reports which tend to overload channels of communication with material quite distant to hostile objects that might soon doy appear. The Panol agreed generally that this mass of poor-quality reports containing information, if any, scientific data was of no value. Quite the opposite, it was possibly dangerous in having a military service foster public concern in "notorious misleading lights". The implication being, since the interested agency was military, that these objects were likely to potential direct threats to national security. Accordingly, the need for decompensation made itself apparent. Comments on possible educational programs are enumerated below.
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.