Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency release, approved in 2004, collects 1966 memoranda on Air Force requests to declassify the 1953 report of the scientific panel on unidentified flying objects that the Office of Scientific Intelligence convened. The memos trace the USAF requests of July 1966, the press interest behind them, and the 15 August forwarding of a sanitized version with CIA references removed. The attached panel comments found no threat to national security, judged the Tremonton film to probably show birds, and recommended a training and debunking program.
“foo fighter”2 pages
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# Approved For Release 2004/03/26 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100040001-7
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Security Information
--a. Misdentification of actual enemy artifacts by defuseo personnel.
The Rural Numbers were in agreement with O/SI opinion that, although evidence of any threat therefrom those sightings was mostly insisting, selected dangers might well cause resulting stress.
10. Overwhelming of company reporting channels with $^{a}$ $^{b}$ $^{c}$ $^{d}$
information ("noice to signal retio^o analogy=Beecher").
so Subjectivity of public to mass hypotension and greater val>
inability to pass into every psychological warfare.
although not the concern of CIA, the first two of those problems
may seriously affect the Air Force intelligence system, and should
be studied by experts, possibly under ADG. If U.F.O.'s become die-
credited in a reaction to the "flying saucer" scare, or if report-
ing channels areaturated with false and poorly documented reports,
our capability of detecting hostile activity will be reduced.
It. Page noted that more competent screening or filtering of reported
nightings at or near the source is required, and that this can best
be achieved by an educational program.
no accomplished by an educational program.
OF THE LOCATIONS OF UNEXPLAINED STRINGS
The map prepared by ATIC showing geographic locations of officially reported unexplained sightings (1952 only) was examined by the Panel. This map showed clusters in certain strategic areas such as Los Alamos. This might be explained on the basis of 24-hour unofficial guard and 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. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.