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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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## THURSDAY 7TH The third and fourth meetings of the Panel were held Thursday, 15 January, commencing at 0900 with a two-hour break for lunchoon. Beaided Panel members and CIA personnel, Mr. Ruppolt and Dr. Hynok were present for both sessions. In the morning, Mr. Ruppolt continued his briefing on ATTC collection and analysis procedures. The Project STCRK support at Rattollo Memorial Institute, Columbus, was described by Dr. Hynok. A number of case histories were discussed in detail and a motion picture film of seagulls was shown. A two-hour break for lunch was taken at 1200. THURSDAY AFTERNOON At 2400 hours Lt. Col. Oler gave a 40-minute briefing of Project TWICKLE, the investigatory project conducted by the Air Force Meteorological Research Center at Cambridge, Mass. In this briefing he pointed out the many problems of acting up and running 24-hour instrumentation watches of patrol cameras searching for sightings of U.F.O. At 1615 Exig. Gen. Widman H. Garland joined the meeting with AD/SI. General Garland expressed his support of the Fund's efforts and stated three personal opinions a. That greater use of Air Force intelligence is efficacious in use field (for follow up investigation) appears desirable, but that they required thorough briefings. Copied From Nearly Illegible Original
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.