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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.
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The dt'_ i~inl1 tp csLlnlish this prn.il',·t {'or toile Scicnti fic StuJr'
tlf Unidentified Flying Objects stems fnllll rccomnk'nd.iP,·r 1'01' rile .'-icicntific SluJf
,'f Unidclltified Firing OhjPcts sterns fnllll rccomm,'ndations in:) report
d;ltl'O ~Iarch 1966 of an .I\t! lIoc COlluni ttee of t),,, ~. i r I'orcc ~dcntific
Advisory BOHrd set up under the chairmanship of Dr. Rrian O'Brien to
~eview the work of Project Blue B00k. Details ef the history of work
('n UFO" are set forth in Section V, Chapter 2. (Sec also Appen-lix A.)
The re,~(JmmC';ld,lt ion was:
It is th(: opinion ,1f t.he C011lmittec that the pre:;ent
Ail' Force progralll deeding with UFO sighting::; hrs Leon well
()r~anj zed, al though tbe rt'SOIlTCE'S ussigned tl.) it (on .. )' one
officer, a sergeant, <lIld ,i secretary) lwve I,een quite limited.
In 19 yea!s and more than J() ,(lOa sightings l'C,cordcd and cl,)o-
sifJed, ther" apl1ears to he no verified and fully satisfactory
('vidence of anv ca~e that is clearly outside the framework
Df presently knoliJl science and technology. Nevertheless.
there is always the possihllity that ana1y~is of new sight-
ings may provide !'omc add.i.tions to scientific knowledge of
value to t. ... Air Force. Moreover, some of the case records
at which the Committ.cl' looked that were listed as 'ider.tified'
were sightings where the evitl.ence collected wa'i too meager or
(00 indefinite: to permit pDsitive listing in the identified
c8tegory. l:lecause of this the Conuni ttee reconunends that the
present progralll be strengtilctH'd to provi de opportull; ty for
sClc'ntific inVl':·;til~;ltlon of selected siglttings 111 mire detail
th~n has b(,cn 1'(I"~i],le to d;·.te.
To accomplish thi~: it is tccommendcJ that:
fl. Cont 1';1<:15 be nl'l4ot i ateu wi th ;1 few selected un: ,.'1"
:<ltics to provide sciclltifilC tealiiS to investigate promptly
and in ,krtl1 c-el'tain s('ll'ctC'd sightil)l~s 0:: UFO's. Each team
should include at least one I,sychologist, prefeIably one
interested 111 clini cal psychology, and 1't: least one ,Jhysical 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.