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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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President of the Institution (or) Wellington, M. Glenny) sent Dr. H. P. Robertson, Dr. Inigo W. Shannon, Dr. Sheridan Page, Dr. Ernest A. Connault, Dr. William C. Cherry, Dr. Ocl. Frederick O. B. Ocl. (Fell Distinction), Mr. Donald P. Sherman (Fell Distinction), and the writer. Daniel Hudson, Dr. Kingd V. Beale now, the present until Friday afternoon. Henry Ocl. and Sherman can now present throughout the month to familiarize themselves with the subject, represent the authorities, interest of their Divisions, and assist in administration support of the meetings.

(A list of personal consent with the meetings as given in Table A).

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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.