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REFORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC PANEL ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Jan 17 1953

1. Pursuant to the request of the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence, the undersigned Panel of Scientific Consultants has met to evaluate any possible threat to national security posed by Unidentified Flying Objects ("Flying Saucers"), and to make recommendations thereon. The Panel has received the evidence as presented by cognizant intelligence agencies, primarily the Air Technical Intelligence Genter, and has reviewed a selection of the best documented incidents.

2. As a result of its consideretions, the Panel :

a. That the evidence presented on Unidentified Flying Objects shows no indication that these phenomena constitute a direct physical threat to national security.

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 :

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 -27- Approved For Release 2001/08/07-CIA0RDP81R00560R000100030027-0