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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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from the center of the screen, if it still appeared at all. Dr. Airezos falls such a small solution was sterile and would cost much less than a "doppler filter". BST PREVENZA Two reported cases were examined at Falcon Mountain, California, in October 1979, then complete ray counters went "off scale for a few seconds". Apparently while a "V" of flying observation was observed virtually and two, a series of observations by the Los Alamos Bird Watchers Association from August 1950 to January 1951, when complete ray coinciders counters behaved quietly. Circuit diagrams and records were available for the letter, and Dr. Alvarez was able quietly to point out that the recorded data were unsuitably due to instrumental efforts that would have been recognized as much by more experienced observers. The proliferation that radioactive effects were correlated with unidentified flying objects in these two cases was, therefore, rejected by the Penal. ENGLISH LANGUAGE The Fennell's concept of a breed educational program integrating efforts of all concerned agencies was that it should have two major uses: training and "education". The training would result in proper recognition of usually ill-defined objects (e.g., balloons, aircraft reflections) in well on natural phenomena (e.g., thorns, fireballs, migrases, nestlings on clouds). Both visual and under recognition are concerned. There would be many
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.