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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, typed 12 February 1953, records the meeting of an ad hoc panel of scientific consultants convened on January 14, 1953 to review the UFO problem. It lists the panel, including Dr. Robertson, Dr. Luis Alvarez, Dr. S. Goudsmit, Dr. Thornton Page and Dr. J.A. Hynek, along with the OSI staff and Air Force and Navy advisers who attended. The panel concluded that UFOs posed no physical threat to US security and showed no evidence of unknown scientific principles. They were of operational interest only because of risks to air defense and possible enemy psychological warfare.
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reduce the defense effort of the general public. It is noted that these general conclusions as stated here do not specifically answer the needs presented in Appendix A. However, it is anticipated that comment on these points will be presented in a written statement from the scientific panel to AD/SI. [DBS:g1] (typed 12 February 1953)
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.