Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the US federal government. The CIA has a long, often classified history of monitoring UFO phenomena, primarily to determine if sightings represented advanced Soviet technology or posed a psychological warfare threat. The agency convened the Robertson Panel in 1953, which significantly influenced the US government's policy of debunking UFO reports to prevent public panic.

Historically monitored UFOs for foreign technological threats and shaped early US government policies on public UFO disclosure.