Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Office Memorandum regarding declassification of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects report
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This 1957 memorandum details a request from the Air Force to declassify the 1953 Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects report. The author indicates they will personally review the request upon their return.
This office memorandum, dated October 26, 1957, documents a communication between an individual identified as P.G.S. and a person named Robertson. The subject of the communication concerns a request made by the United States Air Force to Robertson regarding the declassification of the findings of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects. This panel had been organized by the Office of Science and Technology (OST) in January 1953. The request for declassification originated from Major James F. Byrne of the Air Force unit AFCIN-X1A. In the memorandum, the author states that they informed Robertson that they would personally examine the request and that Major Byrne should contact them directly upon their return to address the matter further.
Robertson called to tell me that Air Force had approached him for permission to declassify the conclusions of the "Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects", which OST organized in January 1953.
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Official Assessment
The document records a communication regarding a request from the Air Force to Robertson to declassify the conclusions of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which had been organized by the OST in January 1953.
Key Persons
- RobertsonIndividual contacted by the Air Force regarding declassification
- James F. ByrneMajor in the Air Force (AFCIN-X1A)