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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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the introduction of professional and subgovernmental time in the

preparation of geography of the world. Focus of the film, then

appears and sensitive motion of objects and variation in their

regular interplay. It was the opinion of the P.I.I. representatives

that the objects sighted were not birds, insects or animals,

where "only reflections became visible passing

through 30° of air" and were, therefore, "colloid lenses". Plays of

motion and variation in light intensity of the objects were disp-

played. Notice the Panel Members were impressed by the evident

continuity, inductive and intent of object of the P.I.I. term, they

could not accept the convolutions reached. Some of the reasons for

this were as follows:

c. A semi-cylindrical object can readily produce a collection of straight lines without twisting through 60° of one travel.

3. Although no data are available on the Palbeck of birds or polyethylene taffees in light sunlight, the apparent variations, often and brightness of the objects were considered strongly to suggest birds, particularly after the Panel viewed a short time showing high reflectivity of coaguline in light sunlight.

o. 212.4. Description of the objects sighted as "circular,

chalcedon?" in color would be expected in cases of

uponine reflections or sunlight from convex surfaces there

is the intelligence of the observation would observe other portions

of the objects.

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.