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CIA-RDP79B00752A000300100010-4

The Black Vault · 39 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This CIA document, released through The Black Vault, holds F. C. Durant's memorandum of 16 February 1953 on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met from January 14 to 18, 1953 under Dr. H. P. Robertson. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It rejected the Navy analysis of the Tremonton film and recommended an educational program. The file also contains an Air Force statistical study summary from 1955 that calls advanced unknown technology highly improbable.

  • p. 5 …In cooperation with the Air Technical Intelligence Center, case histories of reported sightings and related material…
  • p. 24 …television stations would all be pleased to cooperate in the showing of documentary type motion pictures…
  • p. 25 …have been greatly reduced if not eliminated. Cooperation from other military services and agencies concerned (e…
  • p. 37 …This cooperative program has resulted, since 1 January 1955, in reducing the insufficient information cases to…

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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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