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

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JAN 171953
PJ-!PCET OF THE SCIEN'l'IFIC PAUEL
ON
UNIDENTI1IED FLYlBG OBJECTS
1,
Pw.·euant to the requeat of the Assistant Director tor Scientific
Intelligence, the undersigned. Panel of Scientific Consultants haa met to
evaluate any possible three.t to national security posed by Unidentified
!'lying Cbjec:ts ("Flying Saucere"), and to make reconmendationt> thereon.
The Panel has received. the evio.enee as presented. by cognizant inteL1i­
gence agencies, primarily the Air Technical InJ,elligence Center, and has
revieved n selection of the beat documented incidents.
2.
As a result of its considerations; the Panel concludes:
a .
That the evidence presented on Unidentified Flying
Objects shows no indicetion that theae phenomena constitute
a direct physical threat to national security.
We firmly believe that there is no residuum o't cases vbich indicates
phen0!112na whieh are attributable to foreign artifacts capable of hostile
acts, and tb.e.t there ia no evidence that the phenOfllena indicate a n~­
for the revis~.on of current scientilic concepts.
The Psnel f\wther coneludes:
a.
ibat the continued emphasis on the reporting of
these phenomena does, in these parlou.c, times, result. in e.
mthreat to the orderly functioning 0~ the protective organs
of the body politic.
We e:tte aa e~lee the eloggin~ of channels of' communice.tion by irrelevant
reports, the danger of being lei. by continued false alarms to ignore real
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