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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.
“The Times”7 pages
- p. 8 …as Panel
Member, was present at this meeting for the first time. Progress
of the meetings…
- p. 14 …Terrestial explanations of the sightings were suggested in some
cases and in others the time of…
- p. 15 …sub-professional time in the
preparation of graph plots of individual frames of the film, show…
- p. 17 …effort and with a long time delay, if
at all. The long delay in explaining a…
- p. 21 …sky patrol is worthwhile at the present time,
and that the encouragement of amateur astronomers to…
- p. 28 …times, reE"ult in a
threat to the orderly functioninr-" of the protective organs
of the…
- p. 29 …In order most effectively to stren~then the national fa.cilities
for the timely recopnition cnC…
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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.
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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 - Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14: the Battelle statistical study, 1955 1955
Project STORK support at Battelle Memorial Institute described by Hynek
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Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 29 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.