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.
flying saucers ~nd has their crews in secret captivity. if not in the
Pentagon, th·?n at some secret military bJsc. IVe belif;'Vc th;lt ~;uch
teachings nre fantastic nonsense, that it woulJ he il,lpo,-.ible to keep
a secret of such onormi ty over two clecil' It:S. and that no useful purpose
\t'SO'1 \\ith \'lholl1 we have dealt dctUid ly maintains that the Air
Forc(' h,i> ,lothing to uo with UFOs, cluiming that thi~ SUlJer-secret
matter is in the hands of the Central lntelligence !\genc/ widch, he
sOY':", installed one of its own agents as scienti fie J; rectol' of the
Color:.1d:J study. Tll1s story, jf true. is inJCf"Ui wd1 kept secret.
The:;e :-dl('~':8tions of a conspiracy on the pilrt of OUi' ()Vm government to
conceal knowleJgc of the existence of "flying ~aucers" have. so far as
a~y evidence thAt ha~ come to our attention, n0 factual hasis whatever.
'P1C pruject's finit attention WHo, given t(, hecoming familiar with
P(j~t I-'or).; in the subject. This wa~; Inure difficult than in more orthG-
d0X fields because almost none of the many books and magazine artlelc5
dealing \,ith IJFOs could be leg3rdeJ as scicntificull~' reliable. There
\\ere the two books of Dunald 11. Men,:0l, director emerlt1,.ls of the
Harvard Colleg(' Obscrv:Jtol'y and new a memher of the staff of the
Smi th~(1nian Astrophys ica 1 Obscl'vai.O)' (~1enzel J I()S2; !·!cnzcl alld Boyd,
19(3), T\.,:o other useful books weI'2 '!'hp !! '(! F':)i;o Iw1p(,,1 by "bri,'fjj)g~;" given
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