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.
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.