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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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awareness of security measures near such locations. On the other hand, there had been no sightings in the vicinity of sensitive related AN establishments while there were occasionally multiple cases of unexplained sightings in non-strategic areas. Furthermore, there appeared to be no logical relationship to population centers. The Panel could find no ready explanation for these clusters. It was noted, however, that if terrestrial artifacts were to be observed it would be likely that they would be soon first near foreign areas rather than central U. 3. DISINTEREACH TO CONTACT DATA The Farnil was of the opinion that the present ATIC program to place 100 magnesive 25 m. stereo cameras in the hands of various airport control tower operators would probably produce little valuable data related to 0.7,0.7s. However, it was recognized that such action would tend to elilay public concern in the subject until an educational program had taken effect. It was believed that procurement of these cameras was purely the result of public pressure in July 1952. With the poor results of the year-long Project TWELKL3 program of 22-hour instrumentation watch (two frames of film showing nothing distinguishable), a videograd program of chy-watching would not be expected to yield much direct data of value. There was considerable discussion of a possiblo "city patrol" by anatour astronomers (lynak) and by wide-angle cameras (Vago). Dr. Iago and Dr. Robertson pointed out that at present a considerable fraction
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