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Intelligence Advisory Committee Unidentified Flying Objects

Central Intelligence Agency · 1953-02-18 · 7 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Advisory Committee document, IAC-D-67, is dated 18 February 1953 and signed by Secretary James Q. Reber. It transmits the report of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, chaired by H. P. Robertson, which met 14 to 17 January 1953. The panel found no evidence of inimical forces behind the phenomena. It recommended stripping UFOs of their special status and educating the public. CIA concluded that no National Security Council Intelligence Directive was warranted. The document includes the list of evidence and participants.

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## SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON

## UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

24 - 17 January 1953

MEMBERS

Dr. H. P. Robertson (Chairman) California Institute of Technology

Physics, weapons systems

Dr. Luis W. Alvaros University of California

Physics, radar

Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner Associated Universities, Inc.

Geophysics

Dr. Samuel Goudault Brookhaven National Laboratories

Atomic structure, statistical problems

Dr. Thornton Page Office of Research Operations, John Hopkins University

Astronomy, Astrophysics

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Dr. J. Allen Hynek Ohio State University

Astronomy

Mr. Frederick C. Durant Arthur D. Little, Inc.

Rockets, guided missiles

INTERVIEWERS

Brig. Gen. William M. Garland Commanding General, ATIC

Scientific and technical intelligence

Dr. H. Marshall Chadwell Assistant Director, O/SI, CIA

Scientific and technical intelligence

Mr. Ralph L. Clark Deputy Assistant Director, O/SI, CIA

Scientific and technical intelligence

Cases discussed

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