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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# CHARGE TO O/SI ADVISORY GROUP ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1. To review available evidence on unidentified flying objects and to consider possible dangers to national security related thereto. 2. To advise concerning the amount and kind of data necessary for a scientific evaluation of these phenomena. 3. In particular to comment on: a. Validity of current CIA evaluation of related dangers. b. Methodology and scope of current and planned ATIC investigation. c. Advisability of further meetings of this group or further review of the subject by a larger panel.
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.