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.
“The Advance”1 page
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# Approved For Release 2004/03/26 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100040001-7 SECRET Security Information It was agreed by the Panel that no government-sponsored program of optional motion-wide sky patrol is worthwhile at the present time, and that the encouragement of astronomers to undertake such a program might have the adverse effect of over-emphasizing "flying meteor" stories in the public mind. However, the issue of radar escape cameras for recording popular radar echoes would serve several purposes, including the better understanding of radar interference as well as identification of V.1.1.0.10. NAR, PRODUCTION OR RELEASE, ENTERTAINMENT this characteristic problem of radar operation wherein the pulse signal (of approximately the same frequency) from station A may be picked up on the screen of station B and show as a high-speed track as service of dots was recognized to have probably caused a number of U.S.O. reports. This problem was underlined by information received indicating ADC concern in solving this problem of signal identification before service use of very high-speed aircraft or guided missiles (1955-1956). It was believed that one answer to this problem was the use of a "doppler filter" in the receiving circuit. suggested that the problem might be better solved by the use of a "controlled jitter" wherein the operator receiving "very fast tracks" (on the order of 1000-20,000 m.p.h.) would operate a circuit which would alter slightly his station's pulse frequency rate. If the signal received on the screen had been caused by mutual interference with another station, the track would now show itself at a different distance.
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.