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This is the final report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, conducted by the University of Colorado under Air Force contract F44620-67-C-0035, with Edward U. Condon as scientific director and Daniel S. Gillmor as editor. It was submitted to the National Academy of Sciences on 15 November 1968 for review. The report includes field studies, photographic and radar analyses, case studies, historical chapters and appendices such as the Robertson Panel report and the Twining letter.
wi tness continued to search the area after the team left, no revealing new information was discovered, and the source remains unidentified. In another case (30 ) a lone observer reported that his car had been stalled by an UFO he observed passing over the highl,ay in front of his car. While the project generally did not investigate single-observer cases, this one presented us wi.th the opportuni ty to check the car to see if it had been subjected to a 5 trong magnetic field. Our tests sl:owcI i ,-lith numerous lights I.hich lit and disappeared Ln sequence. rhl' investigating team was convinced, after interviewing several of the witnesses, that they had indeed seen something in the sky, The te~),m wa~; not ab Ie, cit the time, to identify what hCtd been seen. 'rhl" c~lairman of the NICI\P Hassachusetts Subcommittee, ~lr. l~aymond E. Fowler, continued the investigation and subsequent ly learned that an aircrew from the 99th [lomb Wing, Westover ArB, had drorped 16 Ivhite flarcs while on a practice mission about :,0 mi, Nfi of Cape Ann. The flare drop coincided in time and direction wicll the observed I~FO." As Mr. FOI·ilcr suggestl,)d, the "ohject" enclosing the stri.'lg of light~ must have been constructed hy i,nag ination. In this case 11:, in othocrs, the key to the solution to the puzzle of a previously lI11Pxpl,dncu ,:;tgLting Was di:.covcreJ. A.ddltional ~ases probah 1~' wt:'re not iciellt i fied as ordi nary plll'llomena mere ly because of lack of informatio11. IIl'nce the I abe 1 "uni uent.i fied" does not nl'ce;;~arily imply that all unusulll '1T 5trllngt' object was present. On the Dther hand, somt:' ca5CS involve testimony which, if 88
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