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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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1. Pursuant to the request of the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, the undersigned Panel of Scientific Consultants has not evaluated any possible threat to national security posed by Unidentified Flying Objects ("Flying Saucers"), and to make recommendations thereon. The Panel has received the evidence on presented by cognizant intelligence agencies, primarily the Air Technical Intelligence Center, and he reviewed a selection of the best documented incidents.
2. As a result of its considerations, the Panel concludes
a. That the evidence presented on identified flying
Objects above no indication that these phenomena constitute
a direct physical threat to national security. We firmly believe that there is no reason for reason which instantiates phenomena which are attributable to foreign artifacts capable of real acts, and that there is no evidence that these phenomena increase for the revision of our own national security.
3. The Panel further concludes
a. That the continued embezzlement of these phenomena does, in the long run, result in a threat to the orderly functioning of the protective organ of the body politic.
We cite as examples the clogging of the area of communication by interle reports, the danger of being led by continued false alarms to ignore re- 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.