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This CIA document, released through The Black Vault, holds F. C. Durant's memorandum of 16 February 1953 on the Office of Scientific Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which met from January 14 to 18, 1953 under Dr. H. P. Robertson. The panel found no evidence of a direct threat to national security. It rejected the Navy analysis of the Tremonton film and recommended an educational program. The file also contains an Air Force statistical study summary from 1955 that calls advanced unknown technology highly improbable.
“Channel”6 pages
- p. 12 …The result today is that the Air Force has instituted a fine channel for receiving reports…
- p. 17 …the thousand or more reports received through channels each year (1,900 in 1952) could not…
- p. 18 …Overloading of emergency reporting channels with "false" information ("noise to signal ratio" analogy-Berkner)。
c. Subjectivity…
- p. 24 …Arthur Godfrey was mentioned as possibly a valuable channel of communication reaching a mass audience of…
- p. 28 …We cite as examples the clogging of channels of communication by irrelevant reports, the danger of…
- p. 29 …quickly and effectively, and to strengthen regular channels for the evaluation of and prompt reaction to…
REPORT OF MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL
ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
CONVENED BY OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, CIA
January 14 - 18, 1953
F. C. DURANF
SECRET Security Information
Cases discussed
- Foo Fighters of World War II 1944
Instances of "Foo Fighters" were cited, WWII balls of light - The Mariana UFO Film 1950
motion pictures of Great Falls, Montana (15 August 1950), suspected aircraft reflections - The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Washington, D. C. area (19 July 1952) - The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film) 1952
Tremonton, Utah, Sighting: Kodachrome motion picture films, about 1600 frames - Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept 1952
Haneda A.F.B. Japan (5 August 1952) - Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept 1952
Bellefontaine, Ohio (1 August 1952) discussed in detail - Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: the Battelle statistical study, 1955 1955
Analysis of Reports of Unidentified Aerial Objects, 5 May 1955; 3201 cases, IBM punch cards
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