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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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Vera, (a study in the psychology of panic, written about the famous Oroon Hollow radio broadcast in 1926) and has also performed advanced laboratory studies in the field of perception. The name of Don Morquio (University of Michigan) and Ioo Rosten were mentioned as possibly suitable as consultant psychologist. Also, someone familiar with mass communication techniques, perhaps an advertising expert, would be helpful. Arthur Griffey was mentioned as possibly a valuable channel of communication reaching a mass audience of certain levels. Dr. Berlins suggested the U. S. Navy (CNI) Special Devices Center, Santa Point, L. I., as a potentially valuable organization to assist in such an educational program. The teaching techniques used by this agency for aircraft identification during the post war was cited as an example of a clinical educational task. The Jan Eady Do, which and World War II training films (motion picture and slide strips) was also suggested, as well as Walt Disney, Inc., animated cartoon. Dr. Lynch suggested that the entire astronomers in the U. S. might be a potential source of catholic talent to spread the gospel. It was believed that business clubs, high schools, colleges, and television stations would all be pleased to cooperate in the showing of documentary type motion pictures if prepared in an interesting manner. The use of turn cause showing first the "synchro" and then the "exploration" would be forceful. To plan and execute such a program, the Panel believed was no To plan and conduct such a program, the Panel followed no main task. The current investigatory group at ATIC would, of necessity, have to be closely integrated for support with respect to not only the
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.