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Approved For Release 2001/08/07-CIA0RDP81R00560R000100030027-0 from the center of the screen, if it still appeared at all. felt such a technical solution was simpler and would cost much less than a "Doppler filter."

Two reported cases were examined: one at Palomar Mountain, California, in October 1949, when cosmic ray counter went "off scale for a few seconds," apparently while a "v" of flying saucers was observed visually; and two, a series of observations by the "Los Alamos Bird Watchers Association" from August 1950 to January 1951, when cosmic ray coincidence counters behaved queerly. Circuit diagrams and records were available for the latter, and able quickly to point out that the recorded data were undoubtedly due to instrumental effects that would have been recognized as such by more experienced observers.

The implication that radioactive effects were correlated with unidentified flying objects in these two cases was, therefore, rejected by the Panel.

The Panel's concept of a broad educational program integrating efforts of all concerned agencies was that it should have two major aims: training and "debunking".

The training aim would result in proper recognition of unusually illuminated objects (e.g., balloons, aircraft relfections) as well as natural phenomena (meteors, fireballs, mirages, noctilucent clouds). Both visual and radar recognition are concerned. There would be many -21- Approved For Release 2001/08/07-CIA0RDP81R00560R000100030027-0