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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.
Airspeed 230 kts, both my copilot and I became aware of something moving along off our port be~n at a lower altitude at a distance of maybe five miles, 111 and out of a broken layer of Strata Cumulus cloud. As we watched, these ob- jects climbed above the cloud and we could now clearly see one large and s':'x small. As we flew on towards Goose Ray the large object began to change shape and the smaller to move relative to the larger . We informed Goose Bay that we had something odd in sight and they made arrangements to vector a fighter (F94?) on to us. Later I changed radio frequency to contact this fighter; the pilot told me he had me in sight on redar closing me head-on at 20 miles. At that the small objects seemed to enter the larger, and then the big one shrank. I gave a description of this to the fighter and a bearing of the objects from mc. I then had to change back to Goose freqency for descent clear- ance. I don't know if the fighter saw anything, as he hadn't landed when I left Goose for London. nH>, description of the UFO in this case, an opaque, dark "jelly- fish-like" object, constantly changing shape, is suggestive of an optical cause. Very little meteorological data are available for this part of the world on the date in question, so that the presence of significant optical propagation mechanisms can be neither confirmed nor ruled out. Nevertheless, certain facts ip the case Bre stroJl~ly 208 Airspeed 230 kts, both my copilot and I became aware of something moving along off our port beam a t a lower aIt i tude at a dis tance of maybe fi ve mi les, iii and out of a br;)ken layer of Strato Cumulus cloud. As we watched, these ob- jects climbed above the cloud and we could now clearly see one lnrge and s~x small. As we flew on towards l;oose Bay the large object began to change shape and the smaller to move relative to the larger . We informed Goose Bay that we had something odd in sight and they made arrangements to vector a fighter (F94?) on to us. Later I changed radio frequency to contact this fighter; the pilot told me he had me in sight on redar closing me head- on at 20 mil es. At tha.t the small ob j ects seemed to enter the larger, and then the big one shrank. I gave a description of this to the fighter and a bearing of the obj ects from me. I then had to change back to Goose freqency for descent clear- ance. I don't know if the fighter "'3W anything, as he hadn't landed when I left Goose for London. 11Hl description of the UFO in thls case, an opaque, dark "jelly- fish-like" object, constantly changing Shape, is suggestive of an optical cause. Very little meteorological data are available for this part of the world on the date in ques t i on, so that the presence of significant optical propagation mechunisms can be nei ther confirmed nor ruled out. Nevertheless, certain facts in the case IJre stroJl~ly 208
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