Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency document, dated 21 January 1953, records the comments and suggestions of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met from 14 to 17 January 1953. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security and no evidence linking sightings to space travelers. It rejected the Navy's analysis of the Tremonton film and recommended an educational program of training and debunking. It also listed the evidence the panel reviewed.
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# SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 14-17 January 1953 ## Evidence Presented. 1. Seventy-five case histories of sightings 1951-1952 (selected by ATIC as those best documented). 2. ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project GRDUGE and Project BLUE BOOK (code names for ATIC study of subject). 3. Progress Reports of Project STORK (Institute contract work supporting ATIC). 4. Summary Report of Sightings at Holleman Air Force Base, New Mexico. 5. Report of USAF Research Center, Cambridge, Mass., Investigation of "Green Fireball" Phenomena (Project TWINKLE). 6. Outline of Investigation of UFO's Proposed by Kirtland Air Force Base (Project POUNCE). 7. Motion Picture Films of sightings at Tremonton, Utah, 2 July 1952 and Great Falls, Montana, August 1950. 8. Summary Report of 89 selected cases of sightings of various categories (Formations, Blinking Lights, Hovering, etc.). 9. Draft of manual: "How to Make a FLYOBRPT", prepared at ATIC. 10. Chart Showing Plot of Geographic Location of Unexplained Sightings in the United States during 1952. 11. Chart Showing Balloon Launching Sites in the United States. 12. Charts Showing Selected Actual Balloon Flight Paths and Relation to Reported Sightings.
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. 21 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.