Documents / FOIA release

Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects

Central Intelligence Agency · 1999-07-16 · 2 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency release, approved for release in 2000, is a roster from the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met 14 to 17 January 1953. It lists the members and associates with their organizations and fields of competence. These include physicists, astronomers and geophysicists from Caltech, the University of California, Brookhaven, Johns Hopkins and Ohio State, along with CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence officials, ATIC and USAF intelligence staff, and Navy photo interpreters.

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

Approved For Release 2000/08/22 CIA RDP78-02646R00060015000234

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

14-17 January 1953

MEMBERS	ORGANIZATION	FIELD OF COMPETENCY
Human	California Institute of Technology	Physics, weapons systems
University of California	Physics, radar
Associated Universities, Inc.	Geophysics
Brookhaven National Laboratories	Atomic structure, statistical problems
Office of Research Operations, Johns Hopkins University	Astronomy, Astrophysics
And	Ohio State University	Astronomy
Arthur D. Little, Inc.	Rockets, guided missiles
Commanding General, ATIC	Scientific and technical intelligence
	Assistant Director, O/SI, CIA	Scientific and technical intelligence
Deputy Assistant Director, O/SI, CIA	Scientific and technical intelligence

Cases discussed

About this file

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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.