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.
Th(~ organizatlrm~ mentioned espouse ,: scientific apPfoach to the
study of the subject. In ;Hld! tion there .:1re 11 number of others that
have a primarily religious orientation.
I'fom 1947 t:J 1966 almost no attention was paid to the UFO problem
by we 11 qU:11 i fied scienti sts. Some (If the reasons fc'r thi~ lack of
interest have been clearly stated by Proi. Gerard P. Kuiper of the
University of Arizona (Appendix C). Conedle in ..I haystack; It is finding ;1 piece of f;xtl";I-
tel"rc~tl'iill hay in ;I terrf:.'~;trial h:Jy~tack, often Oil the b:l~;is of
rl~pon5 of believers in exti.'a-tcrrestdal hay. :
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A ~cientific approach to the uro phcno,ilcflon must emhrace a wiele
ran~e l)f discipljJ1e~. It involves such physical sciences as !1hysics,
c1wmistry, aerodrnamics, :eking to understand group motivations which !-'.' Jhout III:lh t hall i~; madl' pub Ii l', ,';llIl1l' h:I\'(' gUlli' "(J far :I'; to
aS~;I'J't tl1:lt til .., gllvl'I'J1I11l'nt has :tdul) ly uljltuJ'cd cxtr-;ltelrC!;t rlill 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.