Robertson Panel Report

The Black Vault · 1953 · 29 pages · text from the file's own layer

This declassified CIA document, released through The Black Vault, reports on the meetings of the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which the Office of Scientific Intelligence convened on January 14 to 18, 1953. It includes a history of the sessions and the panel's informal comments, and it appends the formal report signed by H. P. Robertson and others. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It recommended stripping UFOs of their special status and starting a public education program.

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The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952

Cases discussed

Foo Fighters of World War II 1944
Instances of Foo Fighters cited, WWII balls of light
The Green Fireballs over New Mexico 1948
reports of Green Fireball phenomena routed to a panel member
The Mariana UFO Film 1950
Great Falls, Montana (15 August 1950) film shown; likely aircraft reflections
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Washington, D.C. area (19 July 1952) discussed
Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept 1952
Haneda A.F.B., Japan (5 August 1952) discussed
Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept 1952
Bellefontaine, Ohio (1 August 1952) discussed in detail
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
Scientific Advisory Panel on UFOs convened by OSI, CIA, January 14-18, 1953

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Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 29 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.