January 1, 2013🇺🇸Document
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CIA releases Robertson Panel records via FOIA

Sixty years after the original proceedings, the intelligence agency declassified the complete 28-page report from the 1953 UFO advisory committee. The disclosure made publicly available the panel's findings, methodology, and recommendations regarding unidentified aerial phenomena.

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January 1, 2013
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Background

Through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Central Intelligence Agency released the complete documentation from the 1953 scientific review. The 28-page report details the deliberations of the Robertson Panel regarding military UFO investigations. This release provided researchers and historians with primary source material regarding the government's mid-century approach to aerial mysteries. The documents confirm the panel's recommendations to reduce public interest through education campaigns and to downgrade the priority of military investigations into sightings.

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The Robertson Panel Report, January 14 – 18, 1953
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