Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (the Condon Report, complete, three volumes)

University of Colorado · 1969-01 · 1497 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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(I) A ghust echo, either direct or inuircct, nOl1l1ally \\:i\l 1:0t be indicated at a height of 200 ft. wld]e the ghost-producer is on the grollnd, as was the case .. ere: (2) A direct ghcst is always at the saine azimuth a~ the moving target, and an indirect ghost is on the same azimuth as the fixed reflecte"t irlvolved. (See Sec~~ion VI Chapter 5j. If an indirect ghost were involved here, the ghost echo would thus have always appeared well to the east of Braniff, not at the same azimutn. TIle radar flight char~~teristics of the UFO in this case were all cOil,patihle v.ith the hypothesis that the unknown was a century-seric3 jet (FIOO, PI04, etc.), yet nothing was ever seen or heard. TIlis 'Ilust remain as one of the 1110~t puzzl ing radar cases on re- cOTll, and no conclllsion is possible at this time. It seems inconceivahle that an anol!1a!()us propagation echo \. 'Iandcnlll'rg AFB, Lompoc, Cali f" b- 7 llet ol,er 1:1()7, I ~)(l(l.- 013ll LSI. \~('ache'r: dear, good visibility, "troll~. c.'lllf,eraturc inversions near the surface' callsI.. d by advl'ci:ioll of very warm PW"-90"F), dry Hir o\'er the cool ocean surface lwater telll]lel':Jtufc S8"(111[(' n;lture of the radar targets, ~OJlW of I,hich WC'f'l' :!P]111J'l'J't·]\' bin\:.; and ~Ol"e ;!J1pan·nl1>' ships tracked at I'lil llIi, 1';lIlgl'S ns \v('11 liS p'rlwl' ·\1'-1 ik( l'('llq'l1s that 259

Cases discussed

The Twining Memo: AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs' 1947
Appendix R: Letter from General N. F. Twining, September 1947
The Chiles-Whitted Encounter 1948
Whitted, John B.: pilot in Eastern Airlines case, 848
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
Washington, D.C. area case July 1952, 134-135, 227-236
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review 1953
Appendix U: Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel (Robertson Panel), 14-18 January 1953
The Tulli Papyrus: the "circles of fire" of Thutmose III 1953
Vatican Museum, Egyptian section: on "Tulli papyrus", 839
Walesville F-94C Crash During an Unknown-Aircraft Intercept 1954
Walesville-Westmorland, N.Y., case July 1954, 240-241
The Antônio Villas Boas Abduction 1957
Villas-Boas, Antonio: in Brazil case, 35, 880-883
The Condon Report and the NAS Review, 1966 to 1969 1966
Final Report of the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, University of Colorado

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