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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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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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