DOW-UAP-D085_Transmission-of-CIA-Scientific-Advisory-Panel-Rept_1953

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SECURITY THE COMITION
REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC PANEL
ON
UNIDENSITING FLYING OBJECTS
Jan 17 1953
1. Pursuant to the request of the Assistant Director for Scientific
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Intelligence, the undersigned Panel of Scientific Consultants has met to
evaluate any possible threat to national security posed by Unidentified
Flying Objects ("Flying Sancers"), and to make recommendations thereon.
The Panel has received the evidence as presented by cognizant intelli-
gence agencies, primarily the Air Technical Intelligence Center, and has
reviewed a selection of the best documented incidents.
B. As a result of its considerations, the Panel concludes:
a. That the evidence presented on Unidentified Flying
Objects shows no indication that these phenomena constitute
a direct physical threat to national security.
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We firmly believe that there is no residuum of cases which indicates
phenomena which are attributable to foreign artifacts capable of hostile
acts, and that there is no evidence that the phenomena indicate a need
for the revision of current scientific concepts.
3. The Panel further concludes:
a. That the continued emphasis on the reporting of
these phenomena does, in these parlous times, result in a
threat to the orderly functioning of the protective organs
of the body politic.
We cite as examples the clogging of channels of communication by irrelevant
reports, the danger of being led by continued false alarms to ignore real
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By ERC NAHS, Date 1/15/85
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