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This Central Intelligence Agency cover letter from Deputy Assistant Director Philip G. Strong to Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner, dated 20 December 1957, encloses two items: a copy of a letter to the Air Force and a declassified version of the Scientific Panel report on Unidentified Flying Objects, dated 17 January 1953. The memo says no connection with CIA may be disclosed. The declassified report concludes the phenomena pose no direct physical threat to national security, and it recommends stripping them of their special status and aura of mystery.
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We suggest that this aim may be achieved by an integrated program designed to reassure the public of the total lack of evidence of inimical forces behind the phenomena. /5/ H. P. Robertson, Chairman California Institute of Technology Luis W. Alvarez University of California /0/ Lloyd V. Deringer Associated Universitien, Inc. /S S. A. Cordamit Brookuaven Littoral Laboratories /8/ Thornton Page Johns Hopkins University
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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.