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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.
“Cooper”4 pages
- 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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REPORT OF MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL
ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
CONVENED BY OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, CIA
January 14 - 18, 1953
F. C. DURANF
SECRET Security Information
Cases discussed
- Foo Fighters of World War II 1944
Instances of "Foo Fighters" were cited, WWII balls of light - The Mariana UFO Film 1950
motion pictures of Great Falls, Montana (15 August 1950), suspected aircraft reflections - The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Washington, D. C. area (19 July 1952) - The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
Tremonton, Utah, Sighting: Kodachrome motion picture films, about 1600 frames - Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept 1952
Haneda A.F.B. Japan (5 August 1952) - Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept 1952
Bellefontaine, Ohio (1 August 1952) discussed in detail - 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, IBM punch cards
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