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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 …WEDNESDAY MORNING The AD/SI opened the meeting, reviewing CIA interest in the subject and action…
  • p. 6 …Besides Panel members and CIA personnel, Capt. E. J. Ruppelt, Dr. J. Allen Nynak, Capt. Harry…
  • p. 7 …Besides Panel members.and CIA personnel, Mr. Ruppelt and Dr. Hynek were present for both sessions…
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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
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sightings were selected for while reports of Green 25X1A
Fireball phenomena, nocturnal lights, and suggested programs of
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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.
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