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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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INDEX
Part I: History of Meetings of Panel
Part II: Comments and Suggestions of Panel
General
On Lack of Danger
Air Force Reporting System
Artifacts of Extraterrestial Origin
Tremonton, Utah, Sighting
Potential Related Dangers
Geographic Locations of Unexplained
Sightings
Instrumentation to Obtain Data
Radar Problem of Mutual Intereference
Unexplained Cosmic Ray Phenomena
Educational Program
Unofficial Investigating Groups
Increase in Number of Sightings
Report of Panel
List of Personnel Concerned with Meetings
List of Documentary EVidence Presented
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Tab A
Tab B
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