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COMMENTS AND “SUGGESTIONS OF UFO PANEL” General. The Panel Members were impressed with the lack of. 20.2 2 sound data in the-great-majority of case histories. Among - — the case histories of significant sightings discussed in detail were the following? Bellefontaine, Ohio (1 August 1952); Tremonton,-Utab .-- 2 = >. Ste (2 July 1952); Great_Falls, Mon Jana (15 August 1950); . Yaak, Montana (1 September 1952); Washington, D.C. “area (19 July 1952); and Haneda A.F.B., Japan -. (5 August 1952), Port Huron, Michigan. (29 July.1952);.. —- and Presque Isle, Maine (10 October 1952).. After review and …

COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS OF UFO PANEL General. The Panel Members were impressed with the lack of sound data in the great majority of case histories. . Among .. the case histories of significant sightings discussed in detail were the following: Bellefontaine, Ohio (1 August 1952); Tremonton, -Utah~ (2 July 1952); Great Falls, Monsana (15 August 1950); Yaak, Montana (1. September 1952); Washington, D.C. _ “area (19 July 1952); and Haneda -A.F.B., Japan... and Presque Isle, Maine (10 October 1952). After review and discussion of these cases (and about” 15 others, in less detail), the Panel conclu…

Vee eae ot action would benefit a training and educational program - (see below). The writings of Charles Fort were referenced — to show that "strange things in the sky" had been recorded © for hundreds of years. It appeared obvious that there was no single explanation for a majority of the things seen. : On Lack of Danger. ... ee ths The Panel-concluded unanimously that there was no evidence of a direct threat to national security in the .__ objects sighted, Instances of "Foo Fighters" were cited. These were unexplained phenomena sighted by aircraft pilots during World War IJ in both European…

1 A pe MP a ti RF om se te tt cn little, if any, scientific data was of no value. Quite... 0.W. Wueie eels # has instituted a fine channel for receiving reports of nearly anything anyone sees in the sky and fails to under- stand. This has-been-particularly- encouraged in popular articles on this and other subjects, such as space travel and science fiction. The result is the mass receipt of — low-grade reports which tend to overload channels of communication with material quite irrelevant to hostile = = ____.. objects that night some day appear. ‘The Panel agreed... generally that this mass of …

« yenee J ae Or-a% 1944 there was material evidence of the. existence of "hardware" obtained from crashed vehicles in Sweden. This , evidence gave the investigating team a basis upon which to .- operate. The absence of any "hardware" resulting from __ unexplained UFO sightings lends a "will-of-the-wisp” nature to the problem. The results of the investigation, to-date, strongly indicate that no evidence of hostile act or... danger exists. -Purthermore ,—the- current reporting ‘systemn=—- would have little value in the case of detection of eneny attack by conventional aircraft or guided missiles…

Ween wena = the cases cited by him because they were raw, unevaluated reports. Terrestrial explanations of the sightingswere = ~~~ suggested in-some cases, and in others the time of sighting was So short as to cause suspicion of visual impressions.- °° >>> > It was noted by others_of the Panel members that extra- terrestrial artifacts, if they did exist, are no cause for &larm; rather, they are-in. the realm of. natural phenomena — subject to scientific_study, just_as cosmic rays were at. 2002002 the time of their discovery_20 to 30 years ago: This was ~~ = an attitude in which another of the …

*¢@ BD . atid on iw Cuan . rd Studied these films, the case history, ATIC's interpreta- tion, and received a briefing by representatives of the USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory on their analysis of the film. This team had expended (at Air_Force request) approximately 1000 man-hours _of professional and sub-~ professional time in the preparation of graph plots of individual frames of the film, showing apparent and. relative motion of objects and variation in. their light- 9 intensity. It was the opinion of the P.¥.L, representatives that the objects sighted were not birds, bailoons or blinki…

we nw . etin pe in bright sunlight, the apparent motions, sizes and brightnesses of the objects were considered strongly to suggest birds, particularly after the on mmm Dane] viewed a short film showing high reflectivity of seagulls in bright sunlight. © c. P.I,L, description of the objects sighted as "circular, bluish-white”" in color would be —--= oo expected in cases of Specular reflections of sun= light from convex surfaces where the brilliance=— ~~~ of the reflection would obscure other portions of — the object. d. —Gojects in the Great Falls case were... _ a nana _..believed-to have prob…