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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.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
However, the Panel could not accept any of the cases given by him because they were not, unvalued reports. Interesting explanations of the sightings were suggested in some cases and in others the time of sighting was so short as to cause comparison of visual impressions. It was noted by Dr. Coulson and concern that meteorological artifacts, if they did exist, are no choice from ordinary writers, they can in the realm of natural phenomena subject to scientific study, just as coquite eyes were at the time of their discovery 20 to 30 years ago. This was an attribution in which Dr. Robertson did not concern, so he felt that such artifacts would be of interest and great concern not only to the U.S. but to all countries. (Nothing like a common threat to unfit people) Dr. Coulson noted that present astronomical knowledge of the solar system makes the existence of intelligent beings (as we know the term) elsewhere then on the earth extremely unlikely, and the consolation of their attention by any controllable means confined to any one continent of the earth quite propositious. this once was considered significant because of the excellent documentary evidence in the case of Hachchhrena motion picture films (about 1600 frames). The Panel studied these films, the case history, ANSI interpretation, and received a briefing by representatives of the BI: Photo Interpretation Laboratory on their analysis of the film. This team had consulted (at Air Force request) approximately
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.