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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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# SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 24 - 17 January 1953 MEMBERS ORGANIZATION FIELD OF COURTESY Dr. H. P. Robertson (Chairman) California Institute of Technology Physics, weapons systems Dr. Luis W. Alvaros University of California Physics, radar Dr. Lloyd V. Borkner Associated Universities, Inc. Geophysics Dr. Samuel Goudamit Brookhaven National Laboratories Atomic structure, statistical problems Dr. Thornton Page Office of Research Operations, John Hopkins University Astronomy, Astrophysics ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Dr. J. Allen Rynak Ohio State University Astronomy Mr. Frederick C. Durant Arthur D. Little, Inc. Rockets, guided missiles INTERVIEWERS Brig. Gen. William H. Garland Commanding General, ATIC Scientific and technical intelligence Dr. R. Marshall Crackell Assistant Director, C/51, CIA Scientific and technical intelligence Mr. Ralph L. Clark Deputy Assistant Director, C/51, CIA Scientific and technical intelligence
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.