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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.
Direct, convincing and unequivocal evidence of the truth of ETA
h-Juld be th~ gr('atc~;;t ~ingl\' scientific discovery in the history of
111311kinl}. l;oing bl'~·O'H.I its interest for sCIence, it would uTlillingness to boli·.'vc the literal truth of the Villas-Boas
incident, or the one from Truckel', Calif. reported by Prof .James
!larder (see Section V, Cl'.apter 2), we found that no direct evidence
\\'hatever t)f a convincing lIatlln' now l')(ists for the claim that any UFO~
represent spacl'crnft visi ting I;artl1 from anuther civilization.
Some persons arc tcmpcY:':'ll'llt:Illr ready, even eager, t.o accept ETA
hlthout clear observatio!lal cVlckncc', One lady remarked, ''It would be
so \\'ot\Lkrfully exciting if i L :;er<: true!" it GcrtainJy Ivculd be exci.t-
ing, but that docs not m:d\l' it true', \'!lWlI cOlifrol1tc~1 w.ith a proposi-
tlon of such great import, rt:"l'un:;iblc scir:·YI.'st.s adopt a cautiou~ly
critiGal at.tituJe tOI,'ard 'Ihate-v,r L'vldence i" 1'.ddt,ccd to support it.
PerSQns \\'ithout scl('nti fi.e training. o!'t('1l confuse this with :',:.;1;:
opposition to the idea, with Cl hias('J tll'~;ir\;! or l\o)1c, or even of 11,11-
ulgncss to distort th~" I)viu('nc(' in orde1' to conclude tll<Jt ETA is not 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.