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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.
ii real 0bject Lt will seem to him to have moved at an enormous velocit'.,.
,0'\ light going out wi 11 seem to shrink and mov{~ away fTnm the observer
as it docs so. If onA light goes on while another i.s going off, it may
.,,'ppear as if ':hc liglLt tha::' is going off is moving to the place where
the other light is going on.
Autokinesis is another property of the eye which needs to be under-
stood by persons who are interested in looking for UFOs. A bright light
in B field of view which has no reference objects in it, such as a
sing e st.ar in a part of the sky which has very feH other stars in it,
h'il1 appear to move wlll'n stared at, even though it is in -reEl,Ety station-
ary, Thi'S effect has given rise to UFO reports in which observe:rs \-Jere
J aoldng at f.I bris:rht star and believed that it was rapidly moving,
usually in an erratic Ivay.
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The popular urn Ii teratute abounds wi tl: photographs of alle~{'d
strange obiucts in the s}'y, r':aTly of which ar(~ claarly in the form of
flying saucers. Some of tilCse have been ptlhlL.h"'d in magazines of wide
circulation. The editors of Lool 1NI1's in whL:h an
image elm b(~ fldd(l,l to II pJ"int, for exnmple, by "n1\h1(~ print'in,.; from two
'lC'IUltivcs, NL'Ra~!."l'S, on t\,:~ other hfmd, lirc sOln('whflt nwr(l difficult
tn alter h'ithout' lellvinR l'vi(k'l1CC of the rnct. \Vc thet"e\-'on~ decided
Il'!wrevl'r PQ<;sibl( to C01H.:cntrnte our studY of p)1(1tograpl1ic cllse IIpon
the negatives. Thi~ "'/1S not, of course, possihle in (,ver'\ Instance
41.l 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.