Retiring the Robertson Panel: Rebuilding UAP Reporting and Inquiry Amid Decades of Stigma

To the point

H. P. Robertson’s 1953 push to ridicule UFO reports created a lasting stigma that distorted Air Defense culture and reduced serious UAP study to a public-relations problem, harming witnesses such as J. Allen Hynek and James McDonald and now threatening national security as new incursions unfold, unless Robertson’s framework is retired, reporting channels are hardened, and witnesses are debriefed with serious, non-retaliatory scrutiny.