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Department of War PURSUE File

DOW-UAP-D085_Transmission-of-CIA-Scientific-Advisory-Panel-Rept_1953

1953

Declassified

Editorial summary

This Department of War file contains a copy of the CIA's 1953 Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, which was transmitted to the Secretary of Defense. The document represents the formal report produced by the scientific panel convened to review the UFO problem. The extracted text of this scanned record is minimal, but per the official description it is the panel report as sent to the Secretary of Defense. It is part of the Department of War's PURSUE release of declassified UAP records.

Editorial summary written by govweird from the declassified document text. The official government description follows below.

Government description

This file contains a copy of the CIA's 1953 "Report of the Scientific Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects" that was sent to the Secretary of Defense.

Caption issued by the U.S. Department of War on war.gov/ufo. Verbatim, unedited.

Originating agency

Department of War

Record type

PDF

Incident date

1953

Incident location

Unspecified

Release tranche

Release 03 (May 8, 2026)

Distribution

Cleared for public release

Original document

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Source: war.gov/ufo · PURSUE Release 03

PURSUE = Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. Records released by the U.S. Department of War on May 8, 2026 are unresolved cases for which the government cannot make a definitive determination, and the Department has invited private-sector analysis.