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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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  • 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 25X1A 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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Approved For Release 2001/08/07: CIA-RDP81R00560R.100030027-0
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an Advisory Panel of selected scientists was assembled. In
cooperation 1vi th the Air Technical Intelligence Center, case
histories of reported sightings and related material were
made available for their study and consideration•
Present at the initial meeting (0930 Wednesday, 14 January)
25X1A
(1V&E Division), and the writer • Panel Member 1
25X1A
absent until Friday afternoon. 25X1A
present throughout the sessions to familiarize themselves
with the subject, represent the substantive interest of their Divisions,
and assist in administrative support of the meetings. (A list of
personnel concerned with the meetings is given in Tab A).
WEDNESDAY MORNING
The AD/SI opened the meeting, reviewing CIA interest in the
subject and action taken. This review included the mention of
the 0/SI Study Group of August 1952 25X1A
culminating in the briefing of the DCI, the ATIC November 21
briefing, 4 December IAC consideration, visit to ATIC (m1adwell 1
, and 0/SI concern over potential dangers to
national security indirectly related to these sightings. ~~.
~~,,m~·~~ted these potential dangers. Following this intvo-
duction, Dr. Chadwell turned the meeting over to 25X1A
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Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 29 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.