Documents / FOIA release
This CIA release, approved in 2003, holds the report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, dated 17 January 1953 and signed by H.P. Robertson as chairman along with Berkner, Goudsmit, Alvarez and Page. The panel concluded that UFOs posed no direct physical threat to national security and gave no evidence of hostile foreign artifacts. It recommended stripping UFOs of their special status and reassuring the public. The copy was mailed to Allen Dulles by Leon Davidson in 1958.
“Leon Davidson”1 page
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Released April 9,1958 by Maj. L.J.Tacker Pub. Info. Div., U.S.A.F., Wash., D.C. for free distribution. Leon Davidson 64 Prospect St. White Plains, N.Y. For your files.
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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.