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Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA January 14- 18, 1953

Central Intelligence Agency · 2013-06-26 · 38 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This declassified CIA document, released in 2013, is F. C. Durant's memorandum of 16 February 1953 on the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects. The Office of Scientific Intelligence convened the panel from January 14 to 18, 1953, and Dr. H. P. Robertson chaired it. The memorandum gives a history of the meetings and the members' unofficial comments. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security and rejected the Navy's analysis of the Tremonton film. It recommended an educational program to reduce public concern. The release also contains a later Air Force summary of a 1955 statistical study.

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  • p. 4 …In cooperation with the Air Technical Intelligence Center, case histories of reported sightings and related material…
  • p. 23 …television stations would all be pleased to cooperate in the showing of documentary type motion pictures…
  • p. 24 …have been greatly reduced if not eliminated. Cooperation from other military services and agencies concerned (e…
  • p. 36 …This cooperative program has resulted, since 1 January 1955, in reducing the insufficient information cases to…

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## INDEX

Purpose 1

Part I: History of Meetings of Panel 1

Part II: Comments and Suggestions of Panel 7

General 7

On Lack of Danger 8

Air Force Reporting System 9

Artifacts of Extraterrestrial Origin 10

Tremonton, Utah, Sighting 11

Potential Related Dangers 15

Geographic Locations of Unexplained Sightings 15

Instrumentation to Obtain Data 16

Radar Problem of Mutual Interference 18

Unexplained Cosmic Ray Phenomena 19

Educational Program 19

Unofficial Investigating Groups 23

Increase in Number of Sightings 24

Report of Panel Tab A

List of Personnel Concerned with Meetings Tab B

List of Documentary Evidence Presented Tab C

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Cases discussed

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