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This Central Intelligence Agency memorandum, from Frederick C. Durant to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence and dated 16 February 1953, is the report on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met January 14 to 18, 1953, under Dr. H. P. Robertson. It gives a history of the meetings and the panel members' comments on cases such as Tremonton and Great Falls. The panel found no direct threat to national security and recommended an educational program to strip UFOs of their special status.
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It was the opinion of Dr. Robertson that the "nuclear" problem had been found to be different in nature from the detection and investigation of German V-1 and V-2 guided missiles prior to their operational use in World War II. In this 1943-1944 intelligence operation (CROSSON), there was excellent intelligence and by June 1944 there was material evidence of the existence of "hardware" obtained from crashed vehicles in Sweden. This evidence gave the investigating team a basis upon which to operate. The absence of any "hardware" resulting from unexplained U.F.O. sightings leads a "will-of-the wind" nature to the APC problem. The results of their investigation, to date, strongly indicate that no evidence of hostile net or danger exists. Furthermore, the current reporting system would have little value in the case of detection of enemy attack by conventional aircraft or guided missiles under such conditions "hardware" would be available almost at once. LANGUAGES OF INTERNATIONAL CHOICE It was interesting to note that none of the resemblance of the panel were leath to accept that this earth night be visited by extraterrestrial intelligent beings of some sort, some day. What they did not find was any evidence that related the objects eighted to space travelers. Mr. Fournot, in his presentation, shows that he had elicited each of the known and probable causes of sightings leaving him "extraterrestrial" so the only one remaining in sightance. Fournot's background as an astronautical engineer and technical intelligence
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. 32 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.