1953 UAP Sighting — AARO Records
CIA officer Frederick Durant drafted a report on the Robertson Panel's work and findings. The report included a history of the panel and unofficial comments from its members that were not included in the final report.
Background
A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 17 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated February 1953 and located in Unknown location.
What the document records
CIA officer Frederick Durant drafted a report on the Robertson Panel’s work and findings. The report included a history of the panel and unofficial comments from its members that were not included in the final report.
Witnesses on file: Frederick Durant.
Status of the case
The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.