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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.
what it was he saw, and there the matter ends. .~o permanc'nt record of
such ('ails is made. I\s a result there is no record of the total number
of UFO reports made to AF bases. Only those that reCJuire more than
cursory consideration ~re reported to Project Blue Book. Air Force
officers are human, and therefore interpret their duty quite differ-
ent 1)', S,)!ne \'Jent to great Jengths not to submi t a report. Others took
special C:.C'light LI1 rep()rting all of the I~easyl! ones out of a zealous
lo}'al!;,' to their scrvi,'E', because- the 1I1orc "identifiods" they turned
in, the- higher !I'oulJ be the over-all percentage of UFO reports
cxplf1ined. When in .Julle 19()7 Air Force UFO officer:- from the vari()us
bases COl1n.'neU in 1311\Jl~er SOlllC' of them qui to vigorously debated the
relative merits of these two different extreme views of their duty,
~I,my pe0tl1e have From time t r ) tlnw tTicd to learn something
~ignifjcant about IJFOs by studying scattering of c:1ty lights j.s not known.
but it i:, illOl'l' v,'obably tht' latter,
There apparelltly ,'xists 110 ~jl1g1c cl)l1lplett' collection of Ul,'(l
rl'Jlon~. TillJ IHri-!('st fill' is thLt l11aint,lllwd h)' Proj·lt [nUl' Boo).; (It
\\ri~ht-I' from tht' den:>cl),-populatcd urb,.tll areas. Whcthel' this is due to
urban sophist IClt10n or to thl' scattering of city 1 ights i,5 not known,
but it is iHon' v,'obabl), till' latter.
There apparently \"xists 110 sjl1~l(' cl)ll1plett' t:ullectiol1 of UHi
reports. Tile l(tt',Il('~t fill' is thLt lilain1;I;n(',! hy I'l'()j'lt Blue Book ,It
\'iri.'iht-f';ltt('r:',!1 :\i hll'Cl' B:ISl', (Jhin. Cltiwl' fi ll's ;ll'C m,lint[lint'u by
WI{O in l\ll'~")n and ~", ::AI' in \\':\;;hi Ilgtoll, Till' ('i It's of I'roj<'ct Hlul' Book
'O'~' arr~l;H:f'd !l\' J,·te anJ pl:it.:l' Dr (lCl'U!'r ,'IJ~'t~ (,f the l'l'POl't, ~;o that 0110
must hl1lW these lbt~1 in (lr,kr 1.1 rilld II jl<lrt.iculur CI';l'. I'rop()~iills
11<1\"l' b('('11 madc frolll t illl,: ttl time' fur :1 <,:OllljJutvJ'·· i Ildpx i Il)~ of these rCj)o.l t;;
b\' \'[11'1.1IU;; l',lh'goril'S but th::; h;l!' Iwt hl'('ll ';1)'1'1l'U out, Tll/O publlcn-
tiollS arc a-":1iL1b1c \~hidl pal'ti'llly :-;\I\1P1)' thi~ lac:k: 01V' i'; '{'he (fI"li
::'{,:'ell<!('; (Hall, 19b,l) dnc! tht' Otl1C1' is a coll('ctiol1 of rCJl0rt~; l~allcJ
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