Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Office Memorandum regarding declassification of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects report
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AI-Generated Summary
This 1957 memorandum documents an Air Force request to declassify the 1953 Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects report. It identifies Major James F. Byrne as the initiator of the request.
This office memorandum, dated October 26, 1957, documents a communication between an individual identified as Robertson and the author, P. G. S. The subject of the communication concerns a request made by the United States Air Force to declassify the conclusions of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which had been organized by the Office of Science and Technology (OST) in January 1953. According to the memorandum, the request for declassification was initiated by Major James F. Byrne of the Air Force unit AFCIN-X1A. The author of the memorandum states that they informed Robertson that the matter would be examined and that Major Byrne should contact them directly upon their return to address the request.
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 declassify the findings of the 1953 Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects. The author notes that the request originated from Major James F. Byrne of AFCIN-X1A and indicates that the matter will be examined upon the author's return.
Key Persons
- RobertsonIndividual contacted by the Air Force regarding declassification
- James F. ByrneMajor in the Air Force (AFCIN-X1A)