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H.P. Robertson

1953-01-14Robertson Panel

Howard Percy Robertson - Caltech mathematical physicist (relativity, cosmology) and deeply-connected defense-science insider who chaired the CIA's 1953 Robertson Panel on UFOs. He steered it toward the conclusion that UFOs posed no threat and that public gullibility should be reduced through a mass-media education program - the intellectual origin of official UFO debunking policy.

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Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, January 14-18, 1953 (the Durant Report) 1953-02-16

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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I

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…panel led by California Institute of Technology physicist, H.P. Robertson. ... The panel unanimously concluded that there was no evid…

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Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA, January 14-18, 1953 (the Durant Report)
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