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

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ko Hom •jitter" trequencia (obtaimble !rClll earq part ot
Tremonton t:tlm) vere not removed from the plota ot the
•111ng1e paaa plots" at the end or the tUm.
The Panel beliend atro~ that the data aailable on th1•
•ighting as eutticient tor positive idantitioation it further data
1a obtaiDed b7 ~otograpbing poqeth7lane •pillow" balloona released
near the eite ullder o1m1lar weather condition■, checldng bSN fliaht.
and Nf'hotion charactaristlo• vith competent arm.tholcciata am
calculatblg apparent •a- forces a~ upon objects from their apparent
trackao It vas coneludod that the resul.ta ot auch tests vould prob­
ably lead to ereditable explanationa or value in an educational ar
tra1nbJg programo lloweYer, the Panel noted that the coat 1n teohldoal
manpow8l" etrort :required to tollcN up and ·exp1a1n every ane ot the
thousand or more reports received through channel.I eaoh JNr' {1,900 in
1952) could not be justitied. It was telt that there will alvaye be
sightings, tor which complete data 1a lacldng, that can o~ be
explained with disproportionate effort and with a lC"11g time delq, U
at allo The lcmg de~ 1n expla1Jdng a sighting tenda to eliminate
any intelllg~e ftl.ue. The educational or training program ehoul4
haTe u a J1Bjor purpose the elimination ot popular reeling that •••7
a1ghtii2g, no matter how poor the data, must be explained in detailo
Attention should be directed to the requirement amo!lg scientists that
a nw phenomena, to be accepted, mast be complete~ am comimini~
documented. In other words, the blrden of proot is on the sighter,
not the explainer.