1953
HALL III · January 14–18, 1953
The Robertson Panel
CIA-convened scientific review
CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence
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A five-member panel of physicists, chaired by H.P. Robertson, was convened by the CIA to review the UFO problem after a wave of sightings over Washington, D.C. in 1952. The panel's classified report recommended that public interest in the subject be reduced through a program of 'training and debunking' — a policy posture that would shape U.S. government communications for the following two decades. The report was declassified in 1975.
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