DOW-UAP-D085_Transmission-of-CIA-Scientific-Advisory-Panel-Rept_1953.pdf

CD 600.92 1953

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
MAR 13 1953
13 March 1953

The Honorable
The Secretary of Defense
Department of Defense
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

The Director of Central Intelligence has asked that you be furnished a copy of the attached report prepared by a panel of scientists on the subject of "Unidentified Flying Objects." This panel was convened at the direction of General Smith, following the recommendation of the Intelligence Advisory Committee.

The conclusions and recommendations may be of interest to you, in that they point…

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

OFFICE OF THE
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

1963 MAR 17 AM 10 08

SERVICE OF THE
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

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REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC PANEL
ON
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
Jan 17 1953

1. Pursuant to the request of the Assistant Director for Scientific
Intelligence, the undersigned Panel of Scientific Consultants has met to
evaluate any possible threat to national security posed by Unidentified
Flying Objects ("Flying Saucers"), and to make recommendations thereon.
The Panel has received the evidence as presented by cognizant intelli-
gence agencies, primarily the Air Technical Intelligence Center, and has
reviewed a selection of the best documented incidents.

2. As a result…

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indications of hostile action, and the cultivation of a morbid national psychology in which skillful hostile propaganda could induce hysterical behavior and harmful distrust of duly constituted authority.

4. In order most effectively to strengthen the national facilities for the timely recognition and the appropriate handling of true indications of hostile action, and to minimize the concomitant dangers alluded to above, the Panel recommends:

a. That the national security agencies take immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status…