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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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Declassified and Approved For Release 2013/06/26: CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

EXCERPTS FROM

PROJECT BLUE BOOK

SPECIAL REPORT NO. 14 (Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects)

Project No. 10073

5 May 1955

AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Ohio

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

Cases discussed

Foo Fighters of World War II 1944
Instances of "Foo Fighters" were cited, WWII balls of light near aircraft
The Mariana UFO Film 1950
motion pictures of sightings at Great Falls, Montana (15 August 1950)
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Washington, D. C. area (19 July 1952) discussed in detail
The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
Tremonton, Utah, Sighting section; Kodachrome film analysed by USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory
Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept 1952
Haneda A.F.B. Japan (5 August 1952) discussed in detail
Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept 1952
Bellefontaine, Ohio (1 August 1952) among significant sightings discussed
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs, January 14-18, 1953, Robertson as Chairman
Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: the Battelle statistical study, 1955 1955
Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects, 5 May 1955, 3201 cases

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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.