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.
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REPLY TO TDETR ATTN OF: SUBJECT: Declassification of the "Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects" JUL 13 1950 70: Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director for Scientific Intelligence 1. Request that consideration be given to declassify the "Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects", dated 17 January 1953. 2. This particular report has been referred to in a number of articles by the news media and by some of the more vocal UFO hobby clubs. 3. Request that consideration be given to declassifying the report to "UNCLASSIFIED" or "FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY". FOR THE COMMANDER ERIC T. de JONOKIEERE, Colonel, USAF Deputy for Technology and Subsystems
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.