CIA-UAP-002_Scientific-Advisory-Panel-on-Unidentified-Flying-Objects_Report_1952-1953.pdf

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FEDERAL CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
APR 18 1953

Mr. Richard D. Drain
Secretary
Intelligence Advisory Committee
2430 E Street, N. W.
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Mr. Drain:

We have carefully studied the report of the Panel of Scientific Consultants on the subject of "Unidentified Flying Objects," which you sent this Agency on March 13.

The conclusions of the Panel and its recommendations, particularly in terms of public education, are of considerable interest in connection with the civil defense program. We appreciat…

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13 March 1953

Mr. Edward T. Dickinson
Vice Chairman, National Security Resources Board
Room 211
Executive Office Building
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Mr. Dickinson:

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 out certain p…

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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 out certain potential dangers to national security, which ar…

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13 March 1953

The Honorable Val Peterson
Administrator, Federal Civil
Defense Administration
1930 Columbia Road, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Peterson:

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 out certain potentia…

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12 March 1953

Mr. C. D. Jackson
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Jackson:

Mr. Robert Amory, Jr., Assistant Deputy Director/Intelligence, has asked me to forward to you for your information the enclosed report "Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects", dated January 17, 1953

This report was prepared by a panel convened in January 1953 at the direction of the former Director of Central Intelligence, General Walter B. Smith, with the concurrence of the Intelligence Advisory Committ…

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One copy of the attached form letter sent to each of the following:

Mr. Robert Cutler
224 Executive Office Building

Mr. C. D. Jackson
Special Assistant to the President
The White House

Mr. James S. Lay
Executive Secretary
National Security Council
302-A Executive Office Building

Mr. George Morgan
Psychological Strategy Board
708 Jackson Place

Mr. Tracey Barnes
Psychological Strategy Board
708 Jackson Place

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

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 resu…