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

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vould be the pbatogralidng ot •p111c,., ball~ at di1'terent distances
wd.er ,1Jdlar v•ther condiUou at the aiteo
The help ot one ar two payohologists and writers and a subcontractor
to p-oduce training films 1.1ould be nacea~ 1n addition~ file Panel
oons1der8:(1 that ATIC• e ettorto, tanpcaarily expanded as necesaa!'7, .
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be most useful 1n implementing ::m;v act-ion taken as a result ot
its recom:,ervla+.ions. !lq>erlonce and records 1n ATIC \1culd be ot value
1n both the piblic educational and Nl"Vice train121g program envisaged.
Dr. Robertson at least was ot the oplnion that after public gullibility
lessened and the service crganizationa, such as Aro, had been trained
to itUt out the more readily explained spurious sightings, there would
still be a role tor a very J!lOdest-aized ATlC section to cope tlitb the
retdduum ot: items ot possible scientif'ic intelligence value. Thia
section should concentrate on energetical.q f'ollowiJJg up (perhaps on
the advice of quallt1ed A1r Farce Scientific Advisory Board members)
those cases which seemed to indicate tba evidence ot unconventional
enem;r artifacts. Reports ot such artifacts would be • expected to
arise main~ from Western outposts in tar closer prox:f.mity to the
Iron Curtain than Iubbock, Taali_l
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The Panel toek cognizance ot the adstence ot such groups as the •
"C1v1U■n Flying Saucer Investigators" (Ios AJ,geles) and the "Aerrial
Fhenmena Research Organimtion (Wisconsin)'o It vas believed that
such organizations should be vatched because ot their potenti~