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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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~ . Approved For RAse 2001/08/07: CIA-RDP81R00560R.100030027-0 ~~;j!,~""""' .3~~,m~fl·on REFORT OF THJ.:; SCIEl'::TII'IC PkNEL ON illHD:.j'JTIFTI;JJ FLYil\C OBJJ::C'l'0 Released in MORI Jan 17 1953 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 Approved For Release 2~ii'RDP81R00560R000100030027-0
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