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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## POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS
A. Hysteria, hallucinations, hoaxes etc. (Psychological)
B. Misidentifications of conventional objects:
1. Aircraft, missiles, searchlight reflections, etc. (man-made, controlled)
2. Balloons, kites, etc. (man-made, uncontrolled)
23. Birds, bugs, etc. (animal)
4. Dust, seeds (e.g. dandelion), paper, etc. (foreign matter)
C. Natural Phenomena:
1. Light aberrations, reflections, refractions, etc.
$ \times_{2} $ 2. Anomalous radar propagation.
3. Ionization, static electricity, ball lighting, etc.
4. Planets, meteors and other astronomical bodies.
5. Others.
D. Unconventional man-made devices:
1. US
2. USSR and other foreign
E. Extraterrestrial origin
. Auremys presentatet
Ap 14:17 Jan 53
1. Animal
2. Machine
Basis of Maj to OS1 Adver. Up ( given on 16 Jan )
SECRET
SECURITY INFORMATION Approved For Release 2001/08/07 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100030028-9 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.