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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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“Sightings”16 pages

  • p. 3 …Origin Tremonton, Utah, Sighting Potential Related Dangers Geographic Locations of Unexplained Sightings Instrumentation to Obtain Data…
  • p. 5 …In cooperation 1vi th the Air Technical Intelligence Center, case histories of reported sightings and related…
  • p. 6 …For example, case histories involving radar or radar and visual 25X1A sightings were selected for while…
  • p. 7 …instrumentation watches of patrol cameras searching for sightings of U.F.O.'s. At 1615 Brig…
  • p. 10 …Among the case histories of significant sightings discussed in detail "ivere the follmving: Bellefontaine, Ohio (1…
  • p. 11 …objects sighted• Instances of nFoo Fighters 11 were cited• These were unexplained phenomena sighted by aircraft…
  • p. 12 …It was interesting that in at least two cases reviewed that the object sighted was categorized…
  • p. 13 …Hhat they did not find vras any evidence that related the objects sighted to space travelers…
  • p. 14 …However, the Panel could not accept any of the cases sighted by him because they were…
  • p. 15 …representatives that the objects sighted were not birds, balloons or aircraft, were nnot reflections because there…
  • p. 16 …There was no valid reason for the attempt to relate theobjects in the Tremonton sighting to…
  • p. 17 …The Panel believed strongly that the data available on this sighting was sufficient for positive identification…
  • p. 18 …Page noted that more competent screening or filtering of reported sightings at or near the source…
  • p. 19 …On the other hand, there had been no sightings in the vicinity of sensitive related AE…
  • p. 20 …exposure in order to photograph an alleged sighting in a different part of the sky; This…
  • p. 27 …mc;~EfkSE IN NU1".il3F.R OF SIGHTINGS The consensus of the Panel Has, based upon…
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. Approved For Release 2001/08/07: CIA-RDP81R00560R.100030027-0
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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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