Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency release, approved in 2001, gathers records of the OSI Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met 14 to 17 January 1953 under H. P. Robertson. It includes an internal memo on the meetings, the panel's charge, the list of members and the evidence presented, and the final report. The panel concluded that UFOs posed no direct physical threat to national security. It recommended stripping the subject of its special status and educating the public.
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SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL ON ## Released in MORI UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 14-17 January 1953 MEMBERS ORGANIZATION FIELD OF COMPETENCY Dr. H. P. Robertson (Chairman) California Institute of Technology Physics, weapons systems Dr. Luis W. Alvares University of California Physics, radar Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner Associated Universities, Inc. Geophysics Dr. Samuel Goudsmit 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. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.