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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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## BDSK Purpose 1 Part I: History of Meetings of Panel 1 Part II: Comments and Suggestions of Panel 7 General 7 On Lack of Danger 8 Air Force Reporting System 9 Artifacts of Intercepted Origin 10 Trenzont, Utah, Sighting 11 Potential Related Fragments 15 Geographic Locations of Unexplained Sightings 16 Instrumentation to Obtain Data 16 Radar Problem of Internal Interference 18 Unexplained Counts May Present 19 Directional Program 19 Unhofficial Investigating Groups 20 Lurence in Radar of Sightings 24 Report of Panel 24 Lack of Personal Command with Meetings 24 Lurence in Accountancy Differences 24
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.