Documents / Report
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.
to be identical to two of them; it was established that the third had been wrecked and repaired. It was not established by these tests just what strength of magneti~ field would be required to change the establis~led pattern of the production vehicle, but it is obviously a greater amount than a car experiences in the normal course of it~ life. It was likewise assumed that this value would be smaller than any field capable of interfering with the car's operation. Since the magnetic pattern on the tested car was substantially unchanged from new, it was concluded on the basis of the above assumptions that the car has not been subject to any ambient magnetic field, either uni- directional or alternating, of sufficient intensity to interfere with its normal functioning. This would have been sufficient to conclude that the permanent magnets in the car could not have been demagnetized, as was at firs~ 5uspected, without the necessity of remOVing the instruments for testing, since any field that would have affected the permanent magnets in the car would have been sufficient to change the retained magnetism in the car's sheet metal. Magnetic effects have been considered to be the most plausible causes of reported automob:lle malfunctioning in UFO encounters, anJ the magnetic-mapping technique offers an effective means Jf determining whether or not a given vehicle has been subjected to intense fields. It does not provide information respecting other possible environmental causes of vehicle malfunctiJn. 155 to be identical to two of t~em; it was established that the third had been wrecked and repaired. It was not established by these test~ just what strength of magnetic field would be required to change the establis)led pattern of the production v~hicle, but it is obviously a greater amount than a car experiences in "he nllrmal course of i t:o li fe. It was likewise assumed that this value would be smaller than any field capable of interfering with th,~ car's operation. Since the magnetic pattern on the tested car was substantially unchanged from new, it was concluded on the basis of the above assumptions that the car has not been subject to any ambient magnetic field, either uni- directional or alternating, of sufficient intensity to interfere with its normal functioning. This would have been sufficient to conclude that the permanent magnets in the car could not have been demagnetized, as was at firs~ suspected, without the necessity of remOVing the instruments for testing, since any field that would have affected the permanent magnets in the car would have been sufficient to change the retained magnetism in the car's sheet metal. Magnetic effects have been considered to be the most plausible causes of reported automobUe malfunctioning in UFO encounters, and the magnetic-mapping technique offers an effective means 0f determining whether or not a given vehicle has been SUbjected to intense fields. It does not provide information respecting other possible environmental causes of vehicle malfunctiJn. 155
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.