Howard Percy Robertson
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Howard Percy Robertson (1903-1961) was an American mathematician and physicist.
Robertson chaired the 1953 CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel.
- The panel, officially the Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, reviewed Air Force UFO evidence over four days
- Concluded that UFOs posed no direct threat to national security
The panel made significant recommendations on UFO policy.
- Recommended a public education campaign to 'debunk' UFO reports
- This recommendation significantly influenced US government UFO policy for decades
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🔗PDF: DOPSR 2024 0263 AARO HISTORICAL RECORD REPORT VOLUME 1 2024🔗CIA Reading Room: DOC_0000838057.pdf🔗Project Blue Book - Wikipedia🔗CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90🔗Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena/Volume 1/Section 4🔗National Academy of Sciences: Biographical Memoir of Howard Percy Robertson (Jesse L. Greenstein, 1980)🔗Science: Howard Percy Robertson, Physicist (Hugh L. Dryden, 1961)🔗Famous Scientists: Howard Robertson – the Man who Proved Einstein Wrong