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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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4. In order most effectively to stren~then the national fa.cilities
for the timely recopnition cnC: the ap-propri8te handling of true indications
of hostile action, 2nd to minimize the concomitcmt dane;ers alluded to
abo1-e, the Panel recommends:
a. That the national security a~encies tc1.ke i.rnmedic:te steps
to strip the UnidentifiE":d flying Objects of the special status they
ha-,,c been [~iven anc'c the aura of mystery they have unfortunately
c>CCft.'ired;
b. Th2t the national security ar-;encies institute policies
on intelli:-;ence, training, and public ed.ucation 6esiQ.ned to prepare
the material defenses and the morale of the cotmtry to recognize
most promptly and to react most effectively to true indications
of hostile intent or action.
·~re sue;e;est that these sims may be .9chieved by an intee;rated program
desiened to reassure the public of the total lack of evidence oi :inimic2l
forces behind the phenomena, to tr2in personnelt to recocnize anc" reject
false indications ouickly and effectively, and to strene;then regular
channels for the evaluation of andprompt reaction to true :indications
of hostile measures.
/s/ Lloyd V. Derkner
I ssoci2.ted Universities, Inc.
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California Institute of Technology /s/ S. A. Goudsmit
Brookhaven Hati('mal Labor2.tories
/r::/ Luis ~-;. Alv~rez
Unlli"ersity of California /s/ Thornton P2r:e
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