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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.
]1l'L'scntcd a>.; caSt' reports. In each instance, conflicting information
\\'a~ l't',:eiveJ b;' this project. The i.nitial information that an lJHJ
('h'nt had OCCUITl'd sOllll'til11l's l'l'ill.:llcd us as iJ rumor. f\ phone call
to the Air Bas" UFO Officer or to the reporti.)d i.nternal source
of the information yielded confi rmation that an event that should he
llf interest to a LIFO study had occurred, but further information would
11,1\'(' to be obtail1u! through official channels, Unless such con-
firmation \\3S obtnil1(,(I, til,.' information, although rcc(~ived from a
'hf'J] (,())ltactcd again later for adJitiono.1 in-
formation, TeplicJ only that he had 11ccn told to "stay out of thr.t."
Conflicting infolOlatioil regarding a fast Oloving radar track
which h'a,iH'il cOlltact(e baSI? on a given date and time. According
to ('tiT illfQ):nation, jet intt'fCt'ptors alerted 10 ~cl'amhlc aft~r a
UFO \\"1'': rolled [Jut ;l1'Ir1l'd wi til rockets, t:lxlc:d to the Tup'''ay. bU'~
JIJ not tilh' off. Th, Ui'!) officer, h()l,ev('t, ft',IIi ?,('d that '~uch all
e\'C"lt ,,'ould h;1\'(' i/l\'olv('d fl)4hter .;r·aH at' his ha~(' which arc UI1U(;T
'I Lii ff"rc'lIt (.iolllmand than the .'11\C cOlJlIJlt.llld wi, i ell he represented.
\i.T IicfCllf'l' l'o111111and rcr,.;onlH.,j CO'JIJ h,w,'an tlH) rcpvrt, til(; offic(?r
inJic;.tl'd, Idthout t l.'lling :jN: 111.'rsonncl about it. lie then ch,:.:ked
lil th til(' fighter (kf('n,;e squadron statiOlll'U at this SI\C base, talking
I,' i th pC(1i'le 1\'110 'I'l'TC on <lilt:' at the time d' the rumored ()vvnt _ fie re-
ported to \I~; that tilc'n, lVii" all alert at the indi cater! dute •• no tillle
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