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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Meeting of OSI Advisory Group on UFO January 14 thru 17, 1953 At 0945 on January 14, 1953, an ad hoc panel of scientific consultants was convened to review the "Unidentified Flying Objects" problem. A detailed statement of the problem presented to the group by CIA is attached as Appendix A. The panel consisted of the following: 25X1A Dr. J.A. Hynek, consultant to ATIC. The following members of the staff of OSI were present for various parts of the discussions. To assist the scientific panel in its review and analysis of evidence, Capt. E. J. Ruppelt of ATIC, Lt. Neasham and Mr. H. Woo of the Navy photo interpretation lab at Anacostia and Major Fournet and Capt. Smith of Air Force Directorate of Intelligence were present. A final report on the results of the meeting is being prepared for the AD/SI by but it is believed that the following is a fair statement of the conclusions reached: 3. The subject "UFO" is not of direct intelligence interest. It is of indirect intelligence interest only insofar as any knowledge about the inumerable unsolved mysteries of the universe are of intelligence interest. 1. No evidence is available to indicate any physical threat to the security of the United States. 2. No evidence is available to indicate the existence or use of any as yet unknown (to us) fundamental scientific principles. The subject "UFO" is of operational interest for three reasons: (a) Interference with air defense by intentional enemy jamming or by lack of ability on the part of operating personnel to discriminate between radar anomalies and actual airborne weapons (b) Related to (a) interference with air defense by overloading 4. The subject "UFO" is of operational interest for three reasons: (b) Related to (a), interference with air defense by overloading communication lines from the air defense observation stations. (c) Possibility of a psychological offensive by the enemy timed with respect to an actual attack could conceivably seriously Approved For Release 2001/08/07 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100030028-9 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.