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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.
“ATIC”12 pages
- 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
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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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16 February 1953
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence
FROM 25X1A
SUBJEar Report of Meetings of the Office of Scientific
Intelligence Scientific Advisory Panel 6n
Unidentified Flying Objects, January 14 - 18, 1953
PURPOSE
The purpose of this memorandum is to present:
a. A brief history of the meetings of the 0/SI Advisory Panel
On Unidentified Flying Objects (Part I),
b. An unofficial supplement to the offic!IAl Panel Report to
AD/SI setting forth comments and suggestions of the Panel
Members which they believed were inappropriate for inclusion
in the formal report (Part II).
PART I: HISTORY OF MEETINGS
GENERAL
After consideration of the subject of "unidentified flying
objectsn at the 4 December meeting of the Intelligence Advisory
C~mnittee, the following action was agreed:
"The Director of Central Intelligence will:
a. Enlist the services of selected scientists to
review and appraise the available evidence in the
light of pertinent scientific theories •••• "
Following the delegation of this action to the Assistant
DirectDr for Scientific Intelligence and preliminary investigation,
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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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