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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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“Sightings”16 pages

  • p. 3 …Origin Tremonton, Utah, Sighting Potential Related Dangers Geographic Locations of Unexplained Sightings Instrumentation to Obtain Data…
  • p. 5 …In cooperation 1vi th the Air Technical Intelligence Center, case histories of reported sightings and related…
  • p. 6 …For example, case histories involving radar or radar and visual 25X1A sightings were selected for while…
  • p. 7 …instrumentation watches of patrol cameras searching for sightings of U.F.O.'s. At 1615 Brig…
  • p. 10 …Among the case histories of significant sightings discussed in detail "ivere the follmving: Bellefontaine, Ohio (1…
  • p. 11 …objects sighted• Instances of nFoo Fighters 11 were cited• These were unexplained phenomena sighted by aircraft…
  • p. 12 …It was interesting that in at least two cases reviewed that the object sighted was categorized…
  • p. 13 …Hhat they did not find vras any evidence that related the objects sighted to space travelers…
  • p. 14 …However, the Panel could not accept any of the cases sighted by him because they were…
  • p. 15 …representatives that the objects sighted were not birds, balloons or aircraft, were nnot reflections because there…
  • p. 16 …There was no valid reason for the attempt to relate theobjects in the Tremonton sighting to…
  • p. 17 …The Panel believed strongly that the data available on this sighting was sufficient for positive identification…
  • p. 18 …Page noted that more competent screening or filtering of reported sightings at or near the source…
  • p. 19 …On the other hand, there had been no sightings in the vicinity of sensitive related AE…
  • p. 20 …exposure in order to photograph an alleged sighting in a different part of the sky; This…
  • p. 27 …mc;~EfkSE IN NU1".il3F.R OF SIGHTINGS The consensus of the Panel Has, based upon…
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W•ms mentioned as possibly
a valuable channel of communication reachin.o; a mass audience of certain levbls.
sugr;ested the u. s. :i~8vy (Ci•iR) Special 'Devices Center, Sands
Point, L. I., as a potentially V3luable or~::-nization to 2.ssist in such an
educational program. The teachinc; techni4ue::- used by this ac;ency for
aircraft identification c_urin[~ the pad 1mr 1-:a.s cited as an example of a
similar educational tac-k. The Jam Hanciy Co. 'tvhich ma0e \'Jorlci :Jar II
trc.:dninp: films (motion picture anci slide strips) Nas also sue;e;e::tec1, as well
as :·:ralt Disney, Inc. animated cartoons. Dr. rlynek suggested that the
amateur astronomers in the U. s. might be a potential source of enthusi-
astic talmt "to spread the p;ospel11 • It H<?s beJ_ieveci that busmess
clubs, hip;h schoolE:, collep;e.s, and television st!'ltions vJOuld all be
pleased to cooper<:1te in the shmTing of documentary type motion pictures
if prepared in an interestjng manner. The use o£ true cases showing
firct the "mystery" an(l then the 11 e~~planation 11 Hould be forceful.
To plan and execute such a program, the Panel believed vJas no
mean task. The current investip;atory r.roup 2.t ATIC uoulC:, of neceE-sity,
have to be closely interra ted for support Hi th res:Ject to not only the
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