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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INTERVIEWS (can't) ORGANIZATION FIELD OF COMPETENCE Mr. Philip G. Strong Chief, Operations Staff, O/SI, CIA Scientific and technical intelligence Mr. Stephan T. Possony Acting Chief, Special Study Group, D/I USAF Scientific and technical intelligence Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, USAF Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch, ATIC, USAF Scientific and technical intelligence Mr. J. Dewey Fournet, Jr. The Ethyl Corporation Aero Eng. Lt. R. S. Hensham, USN USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Anacostia Photo interpretation Mr. Harry Wee USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Anacostia Photo interpretation
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.