UFO History

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.

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

Web Resources

The Durant memo is embedded below:

http://www.isaackoi.com/documents/chronology/19530216_robertson_panel_report_durant.pdf 

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Text of unredacted version of memo available online at:

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/robert.htm

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Book References

Redacted version presented by Lorenzen, Coral and Lorenzen, Jim in “UFOs over the Americas” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 225-241 (in Appendix 4) of the Signet paperback edition.

Text of Durrant’s memo regarding the meetings of the Robertson Panel presented in the Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 1392-1421 (in Appendix U) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 905-921 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

For discussion of the Durant Report see the following:

Other Material