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

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avareneaa ~security-measures naar such loeiationa. On the other
hand, tbare had bean no sightings 1n the nc~t;y ot Nn81t!:ve
related AE establishments while there were oocaa1o~ multiple
cases ot ~ sightings in DOD-Btrategic aNUo Furtharmore,
there ~~ed. to be no logical relat1onsh1p to population ffDters.
The ftmel coald t1m no road1' ezplamtion tar these oluatera. It
waa noted, hOW8'9'm", that if ten-est.rial artitacta were to be o?:laarved
it vould be~ that the;y would be seen first near tortdgn areu
rathm- than c.entral U. s.
IN§TRUMF1fl'ATION TO OBTAIN DATA
The Panel ,nuJ or the opinion that the present ATIO program to
pl.ace 100 inaxponsiva 35 m. stereo camaras in the hams ot various
airport control tower operators would rrobabl3 produce little ftlu­
abl.e data related to u.r.o. •a. However, it vas recogniged that
such action would tend to al.lq public concern 1n the subjeot until
• an educational p:-ogram h$.d taken ef'fect. It vu believed that pro­
curement of those c«meru was part~ the result ot public pr-assure
1n July 1952. With the poor results of the ;year-long Project
1\IDXLE prograti1 of 24-hour inatrumentation watch ( two tramee ot
tilm ahowing nothing distinguishable), a widespread in-ocram ot ft1­
watch1ng would not be a.pected to yield much 'direct data ot value.
Thore was conaiderable discussion of a posaible •aJo- patrol• by
amateur astronomers (Hynek) and by vide-engle oamaraa (Page). Dr. Page
and Dr. Robertson pointed out that at present a considerable tn.cttoil