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Form: 97 INF
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:36:09 -0600
From: Francis Ridge
Subject: The Robertson Transmit, 1953; A Corrected Interim Action
Source: CUFON, Brad Sparks
Distribution: CE, SHG, NCP
CUFON posted the authenticate make of this report selected being ago which makes internet searches possible. Brad Sparks had obtained the full declassification of the Robertson Transmit Interact and Durant Memo by the CIA amongst all sanitary redactions full up in, in 1974-5. The Transmit met Jan 14-17, not 14-18, 1953. The Durant Memo (or Interact) to the CIA stuck-up of the Wing of Strict Intelligence, Dr. H. Marshall Chadwell, has a typo in the verification theme heading/title instruction "14-18," for this reason the hollow dates. The momentous report has been efficient.
Jan. 14-17, 1953: The Durant Interact of the Robertson Transmit trial Interact of Strict Reproving Transmit on Mysterious Flying Relevant Convened by Wing of Strict Intelligence, CIA. (Credit: CUFON)
The Air Get-up-and-go had preceding commissioned the Battelle Tombstone Familiarize to mechanically abide by the assorted UFO reports unworried by Set of circumstances Predecessor, Set of circumstances Ill will and Set of circumstances Subdued Book, but Battelle insisted they needed additional time to attend a honest abide by. The CIA sway the company so serious that it sent a group to Set of circumstances Subdued Book on Dec. 12, 1952. (See 1952 UFO Chronology) The CIA harden amongst Battelle and tried to proffer the Robertson Transmit for selected months but got overruled by the AF which insisted on an prime convening of the select.
The Robertson Transmit first met remotely on January 14, 1953 under the have power over of Howard Percy Robertson. He was a physicist, a CIA employee and stuck-up of the Bombard Schism Weapons Systems Resolve Group (WSEG).
Aged select members were entire scientists and military workforce who had worked on other classified military projects or studies. Ruppelt's clarification cogitate that Robertson and Alvarez were at the outset pro-UFO and their pro-UFO remarks can thoroughly be found in the Durant Memo. By the end of the Transmit catastrophe, set up by the AF amongst forge IFO cases masqueraded as UFO Unknowns, they turned wary too.
ROBERTSON Transmit MEMBERS
H. P. Robertson, cosmologist physicist, Transmit Chairman
Luis W. Alvarez, physicist (and bearing in mind, a Nobel Covetable champion), Academy of California, Berkeley
Samuel A. Goudsmit, Brookhaven City dweller Laboratories physicist
Thornton L. Call, astrophysicist, stick up for stuck-up of the Operations Explore Wing, Johns Hopkins Academy.
Lloyd V. Berkner*, physicist, Carnegie Native land
Sub- Transmit MEMBERS
Frederick C. Durant, III, CIA OSI club mediate, an Sub- Limb of the Transmit not a full aficionada or signer; acted as Transmit Secretary plunder the proceedings and clarification.
J. Allen Hynek, astronomer at Ohio Observation, Sub- Limb of the Transmit, not a full aficionada or signer.
*(Sparks: Berkner came so late that he was in working out a non-entity and Ruppelt may well not get a fix on whether he was pro or anti-UFO. Durant tried to uncivilized up for Berkner's famine by peppering his want verification amongst Berkner's remarks so that his views were opening represented.)
Legitimate Meetings: The Transmit had four candid existence of frosty meetings.
The first day, they viewed two owing upshot pictures of UFO's: the 1950 Montana UFO Outer layer and 1952 Utah UFO Outer layer (the following tiring by Azure Central Trifling Approved Delbert C. Newhouse, who had generous encounter amongst radio dish shooting). Two Azure photographic analysts, Lt. Robert S. Neasham and Azure voter Harry W. Woo, each one of NavPIC (Sea Photographic Submission Basis), moreover reported their conclusions: the two films depicted objects that were not any stated aircraft, birds or simple phenomena. Air Get-up-and-go Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt moreover began a proceedings of Air Get-up-and-go efforts relating to UFO studies, which had to be all through the in that case start.
(Note: Brad Sparks was the lone assistant professor customarily to trial Woo, who died in 1976. Woo had unite the CIA, in its capably secret Bureaucratic Forces Limb of the Mystifying Renovate effective on spy cameras, selected months after the Robertson Transmit. Woo was restful jagged decades bearing in mind at how the Transmit scientists mistreated him and he praised Hynek for "sticking up" for him.)
The glimmer day, Ruppelt all through his concert. Hynek moreover discussed the Battelle abide by, and the select discussed amongst Air Get-up-and-go workforce the tribulations great in monitoring UFO sightings. In the afternoon, AF Lt Col Frederic C. E. Oder, on do exercises to CIA OSI, gave a passing on the 1950-1 Set of circumstances Flicker, as soon as he had been in a management competence in the AF Cambridge Explore Lab.
(Sparks: Oder falsely asserted that go fast had customarily been photographed by Set of circumstances Flicker pole for "two frames" supposedly trade fair "go fast appreciable" [Durant Memo p. 16]. In fact selected phototheodolite tracking camera films had been tiring of UFO's, on April 27, May 24, and Aug. 31, 1950, and in the first incident a triangulation was obtained of 4 UFO's about 30 feet in scope flying at 150,000 feet. The existence of these Pallid Sands UFO films was by design suppressed from the CIA. Anyhow Col Oder's do exercises to the CIA his faithfulness remained amongst the AF as did Ruppelt and Fournet, not one of whom breathed a settee about the existence of these AF Set of circumstances Flicker tracking films proving the existence of UFO's amongst mechanically measurable data. On Demo 29, 1992, I thoroughly got a optimism to stretch the eminent Dr. Oder, the black-projects spy satellite stuck-up for the AF and Lockheed for normal being. Oder periodic the hogwash about Set of circumstances Flicker feeling go fast. I retorted that that was categorical not fit, that in April 1950 two theodolite stations had triangulated a UFO at 150,000 feet. Oder seemed a bit tiring aback, paused a moment as if to pay a debt on a come back with moreover admitted that UFO's may well be definite unreadable phenomenon.)
The third day, Dr. Hynek vacant his pro-UFO technological paper delivered at the Optical Get-together of America on Oct 11, 1952 (bearing in mind published in the Chronicle of the OSA). Dewey J. Fournet spar to the select on the rendezvous he had used up coordinating UFO contact for the Pentagon. Fournet supported the extraterrestrial guesswork as the best explanation for definite mystifying UFO reports based on his abide by of intelligently-guided motions in 17 cases he had opt for (this was the abide by mark and sent up the fetter of put in the picture to AF Over of Intelligence, Maj. Gen. John Samford, at nearly this time, in Jan. 1953).
(Sparks: The 15 months of Fournet cited accidentally in the Durant Memo were not his 11 months as UFO Set of circumstances Check, from Feb. 1952 to Jan. 1953, but Fournet's uncouth time in AF Intelligence.)
For the remainder of the third day, the select discussed their conclusions, and Robertson harden to dash a preliminary report. Berkner entirely showed up for the first time, in the afternoon of this 3rd day, as soon as the Transmit was in close proximity over.
The fourth and concluding day, the select rewrote and finalized their report.
The Robertson Panel's close remarks in the Durant verification end that "most" UFO sightings may well be readily identified amongst standard aircraft, balloons, above what is usual, or simple phenomena, and that the keep up UFO reports may well, in all unplanned, be too explained amongst nitpicky abide by. (p. 6 of Durant Memo).
In addition, the Transmit not compulsory the Air Get-up-and-go be obliged to figure a "debunking" grind to cut down "say gullibility" and discredit UFO reports. The select not compulsory a say people urge, by psychiatrists, astronomers and relaxed celebrities to significantly cut down say stare in UFO's. It was as well as recommended that the socket media be hand-me-down for the debunking, and influential media giants choose Walt Disney Influence.
Their frosty award confirmed "That the national watch agencies believe prime steps to commotion the Mysterious Flying Relevant of the special glory they sustain been exclusive and the aura of mystery they sustain discontentedly acquired."
As well recommended that the government monitor voter groups studying or researching UFO's "what of their potentially sturdy power on socket location... the evident pettiness and possible use of such groups for defiant purposes be obliged to be modest in mind."
It is basically alleged today that the Robertson Panel's conclusions and recommendations had a sturdy power on permissible Joined States convention relating to UFO's for normal decades. (Sparks: The Robertson Transmit had naught power and was not aircraft stated to individual for being, face the few in the AF and CIA development. No one has customarily found any inform or advice debunking UFO's that cites the Robertson Transmit, and the Transmit itself had no cogency or sway to produce such inform, nor did the CIA. It was the AIR Get-up-and-go that had in the past group the permissible convention of debunking of UFO's, for psychological skirmish reasons, look after on July 28, 1952, want earlier procedure for the Robertson Transmit customarily came arrived existence (in Dec 1952). When being tricked by the AF arrived location that the full UFO problem was perfectly one of poor speed IFO reports, the CIA and Robertson Transmit harden amongst AF debunking operations and not compulsory lessons how to uncivilized them aircraft additional debilitating.)
The Robertson Panel's abide by was classified for over 20 being. In 1954, yet, Ruppelt prepared the first say telltale sign of the select in his Real article, moreover in his 1956 book he existing an outstretched proceedings of its trial. Ruppelt did not, yet, submission the select members' names, nor the government agencies represented. (Sparks: Lower than AF start to go through its efforts to derail Congressional hearings on UFO's required by NICAP, the 2-page Robertson Transmit report was to a degree declassified in 1958 in a 1-page sanitary make that suppressed the CIA's competence. Swallow the scenes the AF dispersed the classified Interact and a retyped make of the Durant Memo to Congressional committees in judge to get them to drop the UFO theme and not grasp say hearings. )
Added Relaxed ROBERTSON Transmit MEETINGS
Dec. 12, 1952 CIA/OSI indispensable Dr. Chadwell, Dr. H. P. Robertson and Fred Durant postponement Set of circumstances Subdued Book and Battelle's Dr. Howard Plaster
Dec. 30, 1952 Robertson and Thornton Call create at CIA for UFO briefings (approx. date)
Jan. 28, 1953 A number of Transmit Members (apparently Robertson, Call and possibly Berkner) create casually amongst CIA/OSI in a "rump group" to postmortem the UFO Transmit trial, run through the new agency NSA specifically group amongst go through of OSI stick up for indispensable Ralph Clark (individual to UFO's)
July-Aug 1953 Set of circumstances Subdued Book the stage indispensable Lt. Robert M. Olsson sends definite opt for new UFO cases to Robertson Transmit members as a followup run through to see if any incarnation in conclusions was vindicated (no incarnation resulted)
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