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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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# SECRET Security Information
## 16 February 1953
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence
FROM 3 F. C. Durant
BJECT Report of Meetings of the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, January 14 - 18, 1953
## PURPOSE
The purpose of this memorandum is to present:
a. A brief history of the meetings of the O/SI Advisory Panel On Unidentified Flying Objects (Part I),
b. An unofficial supplement to the official Panel Report to AD/SI setting forth comments and suggestions of the Panel Members which they believed were inappropriate for inclusion in the formal report (Part II).
## PART I: HISTORY OF MEETINGS
## GENERAL
After consideration of the subject of "unidentified flying objects" at the 4 December meeting of the Intelligence Advisory Committee, the following action was agreed:
*The Director of Central Intelligence wills
a. Enlist the services of selected scientists to review and appraise the available evidence in the light of pertinent scientific theories. $ ^{a} $
Following the delegation of this action to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence and preliminary investigation,
SECRET Security Information 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.