Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Report, 1952-1953

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officer (Project Of'f'icer, BIDFl300K f~ 15 months) could not ba
allghtedo However, the Panel could ?)Ot accept a:ar of' the oases
sighted by' him because they vare raw, unsv~uated reports.
Terrestrial explanations ot the aighti.Jlga were suggested in. sane
cas~ and in others the time ot sighting was so short as tp cause
SWtpieion of visual im.pl-essions. It -was noted by Dr. Goudamit and.
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othara that extraterrestrial artitacts, U' they did extat11 are no·
cause for a.larmJ rather, they are in the realm ot natural phenomena
subject to eoientitic stu~, just as co=ic ~
were at the time
ot th~ disc;ovel'7 20 to_30 yosrs ago. This ims an atti~ude 1n
~ch Dr. Robertson did not concur, as he felt that such artif'acts
would be ot 1mn81liate am great concern mt only to the u. s. hit
to all countries.
(Nothing l1ke a comnon threat to unita peoples!)
Dr. Page noted that present astronanical lmowladge ot the solar
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system makes the mstence of intel.llgent beings (as we know the
tc-m) elsewhere th,an on the earth extremely un11ke~, and the
ooncentration of their •ttention by 8117 controllable means confined
to auy one continent ot the earth quite preposterous.
1'ROODTON. OTAR, SIGRrDO
Thia case was considered signif'icant because ot the ax,ellant
document&r7 erldence 1n the torm ot lndacbrome motion picture films
(abottt 1600 framu). The Panel studied these tllma, the case h18tor7,
ATIC1a interpret.at.ton, and received a 1:rief'ing b7 repreaentat.1ves ot
the USN :Photo Interpretation le.boratory on their ~is of the
film. Thia team had expended (at .A1r Force request) approxim~