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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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  • p. 5 …DCI, the ATIC November 21 briefing, 4 December IAC consideration, visit to ATIC (m1adwell 1 , and…
  • p. 6 …Ruppelt spoke for about 40 minutes on ATIC methods of handling and evaluating reports of sighting…
  • p. 7 …Ruppelt con- tinued his briefing on ATIC collection and analysis procedures. The Project STORK support at…
  • p. 8 …That some increase in the ATIC section devoted to U.F.o. analysis was indicated. This…
  • p. 10 …modest size and limited facilities of the ATIC section concerned. Among the case histories of significant…
  • p. 13 …sightings lends a "will- of-the-wisp) nature to the ATIC problem. The results of their…
  • p. 14 …The Panel studied these films, the case history, ATIC's interpretation, and received a briefing by…
  • p. 18 …GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS OF UNEXPLAINED SIGRTINGS 25X1A The map prepared by ATIC showing geogr~phic locations of…
  • p. 19 …INSTRUHENTATION'TO OBTAIN DATA The Panel was of the opinion that the present ATIC program to…
  • p. 24 …The current investip;atory r.roup 2.t ATIC uoulC:, of neceE-sity, have to be…
  • p. 25 …The Panel believed that some expansion of the ATIC effort wortld certainly be required to support…
  • p. 26 …The Panel considered that ATIC 1 s efforts, temporarily e:;;:p~nded as necessary, could be…
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l. Purcu£1nt to the requert of the Lssistant Director for
Scientific Intelligence, the unv.ersir;ned Panel of Scientific Consultcmtc h3s
met to evalu<>.te cmy possible thre2.t to national security poced by Uni.ke recor.uilE::nc~ntions thereon.
The Panel has received the evidence 2s presented by coenizant L~telli-
r;ence aeencies 1 primarily the Air Technical Intelli,:;ence Genter, anc has
revieHed a selection of the best ClocUJilented incidents.
2. As a result of itrconciferetions, the Panel conclude~:
a. Th2.t the evidence presenteci on Unidentified Flyinz
Objects shovrs no indic.:1tion thc::t these phenomena constitute
a direct physical threet to national security.
~:·e firmly believe th<:'.t there is no residuum of cases which indicates
phenomena 1-Jhich an: attributable to foreign artifacts cape.ble of hostile
acts, and. that there is no evi6ence that the phenomena indicate a need
for the revision of current scicnti:':'ic concepts.
3. ~he Penel further concludes:
a. Th;:-t the continued cr11phe.sis on the reportin[~ of
these phenomena doe:=-, in these parlous times, reE"ult in a
threat to the orderly functioninr-" of the protective organs
of the body politic.
~Je cite ap examples the clogr,inp; of channels of communication by irrelevant
reports, the danc;er of beinr. 1£ d by continued f<'1.lse alarms to ie;norc real
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