Documents / FOIA release
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 TAB C SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS ## MEMBERS 14 = 17 January 1953 MEMBERS ORGANIZATION FIELD OF COMPETENCE Dr. H. P. Robertson (Chairman) California Institute of Technology Physics, weapons systems Dr. Luis W. Alvarez University of California Physics, radar Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner Associated Universities, Inc. Geophysics Dr. Samuel Goudamit Brookhaven National Laboratories Atomic structure, statistical problems Dr. Thornton Page Office of Research Operations, Johns Hopkins University Astronomy, Astrophysics ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Dr. J. Allen Hynek 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 Chadwell Assistant Director, O/SI, CIA Scientific and technical intelligence Mr. Ralph L. Clark Deputy Assistant Director, O/SI, CIA Scientific and technical intelligence 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.