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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.

  • p. 29 …Progress Reports of Project STORK (code name for Retholoe Veterinary Institute contract work supporting ATIC). 4…

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# UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

# 24 - 27 January 1953

## INVIDENCE PRESSED

1. Seventy-five case histories of sightings 1951 - 1952 (polarized by ATIC as those best documented):

2. ATIC Status and Progress Reports of Project CRUDGE and Project BLUE BOOK (code names for ATIC study of subject).

3. Progress Reports of Project STORK (code name for Retholoe Veterinary Institute contract work supporting ATIC).

4. Summary Report of Sightings at Holloran Air Force Base, New Mexico,

5. Report of USAF Research Center, Cambridge, Mana , Investigation of Green Fireball* Frennora (Project NWKLE).

6. Outline of Investigation of U.P.C.'s Proposed by Kirtland Air Force Base (Project POLICE).

7. Motion Picture Films of sightings at Trenton, New, 2 July 1934 and Great Falls, Montana, August 1950.

8. Summary Report of 89 selected cases of sightings of various categories (Formations, Blinking Lights, Rovaring.

9. Draft of manual: "Rov to Miko a PL10SRPT", prepared at AEC

10. Chart Showing Plot of Geographic Location of Unarplated Lighting in the United States during 1952.

11. Chart Showing Balloon Launching Site in the United States

22. Charter Sharing Selectal Actual Balloon Flight Fails and Related to Reported Sightings

23. Clarta Shaving Frequency of Reports of Signature, 19.2.1952

14. Unarta Showing Categories of Explanations of Skeletons

15. Radiation Two characteristics of Polyethylene Film Bollons Sardlight Coming Right Radiation

Cases discussed

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