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c000154585 . — COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS OF UFO PANEL General. The Panel Members were impressed with the lack of sound data in the great majority ot case histories. Among the case histories of significant sightings discussed in Getai2 were the following: Bellefontaine, Ohio (1 August 1952); Tremontox, Utab (2 July 1952); Great Fa?is, Wonana (15 August 1950); Yaak, ontena (2 September 1952); Washington, D.C. ‘area (19 July 1952); and Haneda A.¥.B., Japan (5 August 1952), Port Huron, Michigan (29 July 1952); and Presque Isle, Maine (10 October 1952). After review and discussion of these cases (an…

action would benefit @ training and educational program - . (see below). The writings of Charles “Port 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. " gn Lack of Danger. - ' 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 a | . -— pflots during World War It in both European and Far E…

1c00015458 4 + 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 nass receipt of low-grade reports which tend to overload channels ‘of communication with material quite irrelevant to hostile objects that might some day appear. ~The Panel agreed generally that this mass of poor-quality reports containing _attle, if any, scientific data was of no value. Quite the opposite, it was po…

c00015458 Ml 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 fron 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. Furthermore, the current reporting system would have little value in the case ef detection of eneny attack by conventional aircraft or guided missiles; under such conditions…

the cases cited by him because they were raw, unevaluated reports. Terrestrial explanations or the sightings were suggested in some cases, and in others tue tine 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 alarm; rather, they are in. the realm of. natural phenomena subject to scientific study, gust as ‘cosmic rays were at the time of their discovery 20 to 30 years ago. This was an attitude in which anoth = of the Panel members did not concur; as he felt …

C00015458) . studied these films, the case history, ATIC's interprets- 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 7" - relative motion of objects and variation in their light , intensity. It was the opinion of the P.I.L, representatives that the objects sighted were not birds, balloons or aircraft, were “no…

c00015458m in bright sunlight, the apparent notious, sizes and brightnesses of the objecta were considered strongly to suggest birds, particularly after the Panel viewed a short film showing high reflectivity of seagulls in bright sunlight. e. PILL. description of the objects sighted ‘as "oireuler, bluish-white” in color would be 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. : . &.. Objects in the Great Falls caze were believed to have probably been aircraft, and the bright: lights…

C00015458 speed in small orbital paths. g. Apparent lack -of guidance of investi- gators by those familiar with UFO reports and explanations. h. <Analysie of light intensity of objects made from duplicate rather than original film. intensity of the lights indicated extremely high. The. original film was noted to have a much lighter background (affecting relative brightness of object) and the objects appeared. much less bright.. 1. Method of obtaining data of light intensity appeared faulty because of unsuitability of equipment and questionable assumptions in mking ayerzges of readings. j. No d…