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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.
Approved ;or ·~se 2001/08/07: CIA-RDP81R00560.0100030027-0 great influence on mass thinking if iudespread siehtines should occur. The apparent irresponsibility an6 the possible use of such groups for subvcrE"ive purposes shoulc~ be kept in mind. mc;~EfkSE IN NU1".il3F.R OF SIGHTINGS The consensus of the Panel Has, based upon the history of the subject, that the number of sightin9:s could be re.2.sonably expected to increase a~ain this summer. ~-~ Approved For Release13~~=~00560R0001 00030027-0 -24-
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.