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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# ```markdown ``` ## --- DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, D.C. RCPLY TO ATTN OF: SAPOIC JUL 27 1986 SUBJECT: Declassification of "Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, January 14-18, 1953" Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director for Scientific Intelligence Attn: Washington, D. C. ## 25X1A 1. Request your consideration in declassifying subject report which includes the "Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects", dated January 17, 1953. A copy of this document is attached for your convenience. 2. Attached for further information are a letter from CIA to the Air Force Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence dated December 20, 1957, and a copy of a letter with attachments from Foreign Technology Division, Wright-Putterson Air Force Base, Ohio, dated July 12, 1966. Request all attachments be returned to this office. FOR THE CHEF OF STAFF GERALD R. JORGENSEN Colonel, USAF Chief Community Relations Division Office of Information 3 Atch 1. Rpt of Mtgs of Scientific Advis Panel on UFOs, convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, Jan 14-18, 1953 2. Ltr, CIA to AF, 20 Dec 1957 3. Ltr, FTD to CIA, Jul 12, 1966 17. CALCULATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARA ACS, APR 2003-1.
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.