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Report of Meetings of the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 14-18, 1953

Central Intelligence Agency · 1953-02-16 · 32 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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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

Cases discussed

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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.