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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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·' Approved For Reise 2001/08/07: CIA-RDP81R00560R.00030027-0 ,....,.~~lici.~ ~~~-.~y as Chairw~n of the Panel• enumerated the evidence availabl~ and requested consideration of specific reports and letters be taken by certain individuals present (Tab B). For example, case histories involving radar or radar and visual 25X1A sightings were selected for while reports of Green 25X1A Fireball phenomena, nocturnal lights, and suggested programs of 25X1A investigations were routed to Following these remarks, 25X1A the motion pictures of the sightings at Tremonton, Utah (2 July 1952) and Great Falls, Hontana (15 August 1950) were shown. The meeting adjourned at 1200. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON The second meeting of the Panel opened at 1400. Lt. R. S. Neasham, USN, and Mr. Harry Woo of the USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory, Anacostia, presented the results of their analyses of the films mentioned above. This analysis evolved considerable discussion as elaborated upon below. Besides Panel members and CIA personnel, Capt. E. J. Ruppelt, Dr. J. Allen Nynak, Capt. Harry B. Smith (2-e-2), and Dr. Stephen Possony were present. Following the Photo Interpretation Lab presentation, Mr. E. J. Ruppelt spoke for about 40 minutes on ATIC methods of handling and evaluating reports of sighting and their efforts to improve the quality of reports. The meeting was adjourned at 1715. ~~4~~g~, ~~' -3- Approved For Release 2001/08/07: CIA-RDP81R00560R000100030027-0 25X1A
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