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Meetings of OSI Advisory Group on Unidentified Flying Objects, 14-17 January 1953

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-06-05 · 19 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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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INTERVIEWS (cont't)	ORGANIZATION	FIELD OF COMPETENCE
Mr. Philip G. Strong	Chief, Operations Staff, O/SI, CIA	Scientific and technical intelligence
Mr. Stephan T. Poasony	Acting Chief, Special Study Group, D/I USAF	Scientific and technical intelligence
Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, USAF	Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch, ATIC, USAF	Scientific and technical intelligence
Mr. J. Dewey Fournet, Jr.	The Ethyl Corporation	Aero Eng.
Lt. R. S. Neenham, USN	USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Anacostia	Photo interpretation
Mr. Harry Wee	USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Anacostia	Photo interpretation

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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. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.