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1953.0216 Durant memo

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Durant memo

On 16 February 1953, a memo from Fred C Durant to the Assistant Director for Scientific Intelligence providing a brief history of the meetings of the O/SI Advisory Panel (“the Robertson Panel”) and expressed to set forth “comments and suggestions of the Panel Members which they believed were inappropriate for inclusion in the formal report”. Often referred to as “the Durant Report”. The formal report of the Robertson Panel (often referred to as “the Robertson Report”) appears at Tab 1 to the Durant Report.

 

1953.0315 “World Contact Day”

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On 15 March 1878, “World Contact Day” was organised by Albert K Bender, involving a mass attempt to telepathically broadcast a message to extraterrestrials beginning “Calling occupants of interplanetary craft!”.

 

 

 

1953.0515 Miller-Urey Experiment

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Miller-Urey Experiment
On 15 May 1953, the journal Science includes an article by Stanley Miller (a graduate student under the supervision of Harold Urey) entitled “Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions”. (Commonly referred to as the “Miller-Urey Experiment”).

 

 

 

1953.0725 Air Force FLYOBRPTS

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Air Force FLYOBRPTS
On 25 July 1953, USAF’s ATIC produces guide entitled “How to make FLYOBRPTS” for use by intelligence officers or anyone else who might be required to submit a Report of a unidentified Flying Object (a FLY OB RPT or “FLYOBRPT”).

 

 

 

1953.0800 4602nd Air Intelligence

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During August 1953, 4602nd Air Intelligence Squadron began to take over all field investigations for Project Bluebook.

[Date to be checked - different sources give different dates during 1953.]