Robertson Panel

So in the new dump of UFO files, a little tidbit of information kind of was discovered that actually is fascinating.

The Robertson panel is a panel that met in January 1953.

It's been minorly, partially disclosed of its existence.

But the whole point of it was to...

Its report recommended that national security agencies strip the UFO subject of its aura of mystery through a public, quote, debunking an education program.

And it flagged concern that more morbid national psychology around sightings could be exploited by an adversary.

The point was the Robertson panel existed to.

warn us against Project Bluebeam.

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the Robertson Panel in the early '50s, right? I mean, there was the flaps in the '50s that seemed to be getting a lot of attention, and then they kinda squashed it.

Yeah.

You know?

David and I became good friends while Project Blue Book was on the air, and we clicked immediately because we had so much in common.

His show was digging around in the 1950s, Heineck, Project Blue Book itself, the Robertson panel.

the Washington, D.C. overflights, basically the beginnings of the modern UFO mystery.

And then dark skies picked up in 1961, when all of that secrecy started colliding with the Kennedy murder, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Moon Race, Majestic 12, and basically the growing American suspicion that maybe the government wasn't telling us everything about anything.

I can't do it.

You did a great episode, though, where you flashback to the...

Robertson panel, which is so important to sound light and frequency because that's where the idea that we should be part of, we should be reaching out.

The CIA is saying, let's reach out to Hollywood as part of the Robertson panel.

And remember, they wrap an important issue or topic in something foolish that simply by association will diminish the importance of the real issue.

That was the exact task of the Robertson Panel.

For those of you that don't know, the Robertson Panel was a CIA-sponsored panel that got together in the 1950s, I think 1953, to manage the public's perception and psychology around the topic of UFOs, meaning they didn't need to disprove it.

They couldn't.

There were way too many sightings at the time, so what did they do? They just made it socially toxic.

In the '50s, that's how many reports there were.

Now, remember when I said the gateway, that the mind is the gateway.

So the Robertson Panel comes along and tightens down on the mind.

But I used it as a vehicle to illustrate some new concepts that I had developed and to take those theorists and to re-examine if we go all the way back to War of the Worlds, in fact, is kind of where I think a lot of this started in that radio broadcast.

Because that study, the Cantrell-Ital study, was used in the Robertson Panel, the Brookings Institute, and it helped form a lot of the policies of what we believed was going to happen in society if we were ever to disclose.

So in a nutshell, that's where it came from.

But I actually used your book, and you probably saw that, and quoted you guys.

The Air Force officially labeled these sightings as unknown.

All this led to the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel, which recommended a public debunking campaign to prevent mass panic.

Now, the Washington flap is the gold standard of UFO cases for three factual reasons.

The technological corroboration.

There's different, three or four different names.

It's referred to commonly as the Robertson Panel Report after one of the officials.

And the report explicitly says, "We are going to use the UFO, you know, idea.

We don't really know what it is, but we're going to use it." And they list a bunch of ways to use it.

So that takes us away from etheric manifesting because of psychic stressors, etheric type UFOs, to manufactured UFOs, manufactured narratives around UFOs, all while at the same time this phenomenon's been around for hundreds, thousands of years as a matter of fact, tens of thousands of years.

And be it plasma or something else or a combination, we r- we really don't, we still don't know.

You fast-forward to what's happening today, and the Robertson Panel Report is, as far as I can tell, still official policy because many of the things the US government has, has unveiled recently, uh, so-called UFO, UAP file disclosures, many of those files are not only things that people like myself already had copies of and things I already knew, uh, many of those files are things that the government has already said, "All right.

Yeah.

There's a lot of things like that, though, in ufology especially.

And we know about the history of at least Richard Doty and Paul Benowitz and what they've done to – Since the 50s, and we have the report on that, the Robertson panel report, what the military and what the intelligence community has done to ufology.

They've infiltrated it.

And back then it wasn't ufology.

They call them skiffs and they have a name for it called skiff flu, where just the people that have the evidence don't show up for it.

So.

It's kind of turned into like a modern day Robertson panel report is how I've looked at it.

So my thoughts are this and we'll bring in our guests slash co-hosts here in a moment.

And there is historical precedent for this.

The 1953 Robertson Panel and the Durant Report.

Right.

Actual declassified documents.