Documents / FOIA release
This 1953 letter from Richard D. Drain, Secretary of the CIA's Intelligence Advisory Committee, sends the Secretary of Defense a report by a panel of scientists on unidentified flying objects. The panel met 14 to 17 January 1953 and found no evidence that the phenomena posed a direct physical threat or were foreign artifacts. It warned that the reports themselves could clog communications and recommended stripping UFOs of their special status. It also recommended public education. Attachments list the panel members, the interviewees and the evidence reviewed.
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MEMBERS ORGANIZATION FIELD OF COMPETENCE Dr. H. P. Roberts(Chairman) California Institute of Technology Physics, weapons systems Dr. Luis W. Alvarca University of California Physics, radar Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner Associated Universities, Inc. Geophysics Dr. Samuel Goudsmit Brookhaven National Laboratories Atomic structure, statistical problems Dr. Thornton Page Office of Research Operations, Johns Hopkins University Astronomy, Astrophysics ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Dr. J. Allen Hynck Ohio State University Astronomy Mr. Frederick C. Durant Arthur D. Little, Inc. Rockets, guided missiles INTERVIEWEES Brig. Gen. William M. Garland Commanding General, ATIC Scientific and technical intelligence Dr. H. Marshall Chedwell Assistant Director, O/SI, CIA Scientific and technical intelligence Mr. Ralph L. Clark Deputy Assistant Director, O/SI, 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. 7 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.