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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.
for study. lhc'ic results Jrct gathcTC(' informat',on on .35 ',)'lOtographic cases
that occurred in 1960-68. These may be assumed to 1)(' a l1Iore or
1estogr '!)hic
C3S('S. That is. roughly one qU:lrter nrc fabr.i cati OIlS, one quarter
are m.isidentification:;, " quarter h:lVe stlcli IUhl information content
as tohe unfit for analysis, another quarter Dre clearly re~orJcd
but 1:lck sufficirnt data for analysis, The residual cases that
arc genuillC'h puzzling constitute ilt most U Vr'f)' sillall pe.'·ccntage.
In addition to thesc' current cl1se~, 18 older rrports, in-
duding S,)IlIt' b)' advlJcates of the existcnce of "flying saucer:;,"
of the 35 cases olll), those in wh i ch the natul'(' 01' the ('vi Jcncc
or the credcnt,ials of the witness Ivcrr judged to lnvo the 11:gile5t
,; tl'i()l'i pr(1bald I i ty of pl'oducing evidence for an unknown pllenorncnon
were a%igned fi ,,~;t priority for study. T,lblc 2 shows the class"
ificatlons finally as~igneJ to thcsc first prtority cases. Of
them some 60:~ I,ere foulld to be idl'nt.ifjflhle or to l:.ck prob.ltiv('
value'. TII'o cases
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