US Report University of Colorado; National Academy of Sciences
The Condon Report is released and the National Academy of Sciences endorses it
The Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, conducted by the University of Colorado under contract F44620-67-C-0035 to the United States Air Force with Dr. Edward U. Condon as scientific director and Daniel S. Gillmor as editor, was published in three volumes. The university president's transmittal letter to Air Force Secretary Harold Brown, dated 31 October 1968, said the Air Force had made no attempt to influence the study. The text supplied covers the study's origins in a 1966 Air Force Office of Scientific Research request and a 1967 plasma conference, but it does not contain the National Academy of Sciences review, its endorsement or the release date on file.
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- The university president transmitted the final report to Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown on 31 October 1968 and wrote that there had "never been the slightest suggestion of any effort on the part of the Air Force to influence either the conduct of the investigation or the content of this report".
- The edition is described as a reproduction of the report submitted to the National Academy of Sciences on November 15, 1968, "for its scientific review".
- On 31 August 1966 Colonel Ivan C. Atkinson of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research asked the University of Colorado to take part "as the grantee institution", following a March 1966 recommendation of an ad hoc panel chaired by Dr. Brian O'Brien (p. v).
- At a plasma UFO conference in Boulder on 27 and 28 October 1967, participants reached a unanimous conclusion that an object pacing a B-47 was not a plasma or an electrical luminosity produced by the atmosphere (p. 1193).
- All conference participants agreed that the UFO cases presented contained insufficient data for a definitive scientific conclusion (p. 1194).
Documents
- Report Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (the Condon Report, complete, three volumes) University of Colorado· 1969-01· 1497 pp.
- Document Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (DTIC AD0680975) DTIC
- Report Review of the University of Colorado Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by a Panel of the National Academy of Sciences DTIC via Internet Archive· 1969-01-08· 11 pp.
- Report Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (3-volume final report) Internet Archive
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