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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.
of the specimen. The Club Jot's not claim that the pi eel' of met J I is,
in fact, part of a spaceship; h('\,evcr, its membL~rs dfJ not rej~r:t this
possibility. Mrs. Ilalford-Watkins generously offered samples of the
material fOT analysio;; and provided photographs of the object and a
deSC1"iption of detail! of the find and analys('~ of the materia.l. The
Canadian Arsenals Research and Developmc~~t l:stablishment (CAROE) had
examined the non-homogeneous material, nnd df>scribed it as high-munganesc
austenitic steel. CARVE personnel considered the material the nonnal
prt'dllct of a foundry, consisting of slag with semi-molten scrap
imbedded in it. The object was not believoJ to h5Cribed it as high-mr.nganese
~ustenitic steel. CARDE personnt'l considered thc material the nonnal
prt'duct of n foundry, consisting of slag with semi-molten scrap
imbedded in it. The ohject was not believed to hnvc falll'Jl in the
ioeation "here it was f()und, which is ncar QUt~hcc Ci ty, in a channel
of the St. Lawrencl' \\lver which carries watl'T only at high tide, for
there was no cratl'r nor spluttered material in the vicinity.
A Quebec l1t'wspaper had rt'portt)d that :t flf.'ry ohj(~ct f'-'lI out of
the ~ky ,.;i til an accompany i ng S oni c bOQ,n rock i ng the :trl'a, prj or to
discov'~ry of th(' massive metal in the ri v('r. ~kmhcl"s of Ottawa New
;;ciences Club who investigated, hOlveV(,T, were 1I11ublv to find <.111yone
in the arell who had actually heard or seen t11(' object fall. Since 110
connection could be seen between the existellcc of this [lIctnl or slag
and the Uhl question, no further analysis of tht' Illatcj'ial \'/as UIHlertakcll
by the pro j oct. Thiswri tcr ('xrunilled the me tall i c mas ~ :it ,)t ta', ',1 and
agreed wi th the CAIWE conclusion th;lt it was ordi nury foundry ;~flst('.
Exami natl on of c1 tlimeci ('vi dcnce of any of the th l" (.' gl'l1cra 1 types
revealed a tendency of some pt!T!lOIIS to attributll ttl lIFO~ UIlY tra':;'i
material, or artifuct Which !leemed ul\U!lual allJ ;;tl"anpC, ('ven whel1 tlH'rc
had bt'en no sightin~ of (til UFO in thl' vIcin.lty. The 3,00(1 lb. metallic
ma5S is Olle l'xatnple. ,\nother exat11pl~' Wll~ !l ).:round dcpl'e~;~' iOIl and i'OIlI1PCt-
i ng system of crooked, thrt'ad-lihc tUllllrb found ncar ~lllrl ie,ls, I:ranee
on iI ~18y 1967, and repc,rted ill Tile FLUfll(/ i;auocr' Nevin,) (ID()7). The
radar chuff I)~pael; grH,,~1 J('s(~ribE'J abov!' ,tlso illustrate,,; tlJi~ teJ1JCl1l~Y,
M~tal spheres, (\ foot or two in dlal11ct '')r, hllVl' Rl~() bccn found in fit'ld~
or ,,'ooels and reportrd :J:; my~terious UP(h or UHl c\iiJt'nc~'. 11wH'110110w
~phere5 actually I1re tHfRC'ts used to l:al i11rntc rlldar sets. One such
object, not corsidered an "UFO" by the finder in this cast', but arousing Report, from the classic collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 1497 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.