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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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great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur.

The apparent irresponsibility and the possible use of such groups

the subversive purposes should be kept in mind.

DENIS. IN NUMBER OF SIGHTINGS

The consensus of the Panel was, based upon the history of the

subject , that the number of pightings could be reasonably assumed

Cases discussed

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