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Intelligence Advisory Committee Unidentified Flying Objects

Central Intelligence Agency · 1953-02-18 · 7 pages · text by 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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INTERVIEWERS (not it)	ORGANIZATION	FIELD OF COMPETENCE
Mr. Philip G. Strong	Chief, Operations Staff, O/SI, CIA	Scientific and technical intelligence
Mr. Stephen T. Penseny	Acting Chief, Special Study Group, D/I USAF	Scientific and technical intelligence
Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, USAF	Chief, Asial Phenomena Branch, ATIC, USAF	Scientific and technical intelligence
Mr. J. Dewey Yornet, Jr.	The Ethyl Corporation	Aero Eng.
Lt. R, S. Weaham, USN	USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Anacostia	Photo interpretation
Mr. Earry Vao	USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Anacostia	Photo interpretation

Cases discussed

The Green Fireballs over New Mexico 1948
Investigation of "Green Fireball" Phenomena (Project TWINKLE)
The Mariana UFO Film 1950
Great Falls, Montana, August 1950 film
The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
Motion Picture Films of sightings at Tremonton, Utah, 2 July 1952
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs, 14-17 January 1953, H. P. Robertson, Chairman

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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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.