Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (the Condon Report, complete, three volumes)

examined.
A b",'h:"" ...,h~;so shop i:~ in Zanesville, Ohio, hut whose home IS in
the S11bttrb ·)L Roseville, has made a \llt yard of the
Roseville home, i1~~ a vheck on the cnlC\:l;ltions h;l~('d on the photographs.
I;rom:l stlldy of the slj:ldow~ <lJ1Jlcilriq: in the picture, he could show
(onclllsiv('l)' that llct1ltl11y picture II .... as taken ear'licr than pict:uc 1\,
rmJ that' the ttlnc ifltcrval het-",'cen the two pictllrr"s was more than an
hour, rather thiln bcil1~ ]es~· than two l1linutes a' c1:1imcd.
so
f'x3.mineJ..
A b',)'b~" ~.lviSc shop i:" in Zanc~;vi1Ic, Ohio, but whose home IS in
the silburb ·Yi' Rnst'ville, has made a widely publicized paIr of uro
photographs. lIe Llid nf): attempt to exploit them in a big way. lie
merely exhibl~l~d thell'. for local intet'e;t (and stimulation of hi"
barbering busi'ness) in the w in..!c'·! of hh shop. 'I11~re they rePHlin'~d
for more than two ·.nonths unti 1 they were discovered by a big city
newspaperman f~ol1' Columbus; Ohio, who arrar.ged to sell thf:m to the
Associated Pre!;~.. 'illey \\,(:re distributed in February 1967 and havIJ
bt'(~n often piil!t~d in vaT.iotis magazines nfter their original presenta-
tion in many newspapers.
Early in the project Wt' bc,;nme acqunjntcd with Everitt Merritt,
p~lOtogrammetrist un the staff of the /\utolretr1.c.' llivision of the
R;~ytheon Company of AlexanJri", Virginia. lie undertook to do an
an:11ysis of the photogra}llls. J\ rail" of )lrints was supplied to ~lerT J tt
by raCAP.
ERCh of the pat r 5hol'I5 the homC' of the photographer. a small
bungalow, with H t"lying s"uc('r flying over it. '!11c flying saucer
looks like it might be almost as largE' a~; the hOllse in its hori zon taJ
dimension. The photographer says that he was leaviJlg Iwme with a camera
when he chanced to lL10k back :\Jld see th'" saucer flying c,ver his home.
lie says he quickly snllppcd what we call picture A. "/1l.inking the uro
h:q~i about to disappear behind a tree, he rail to th0 left about 30 ft.
and snappcu pictun' II, havi.ng spoi lr)l\ ()JIe exposurc~ in l'etweef'. lie
e5tima~cd that thcl'~' ,,"IS Ie:.;s thal1 a two minute' illtcrviil between the
two pi ctlll'CS. hi tit ..\ followcd by H.
~l('rritt st\1died th(' rll'g'ltiv('s til('m~;clves by qlwiltitcttive rh()tO}~r8m
l1It't'Cil' mC'thods. and al!;(l did somC' s\\Tve)ingin t1~(' fre,nt yard of the
Roseville hOl11e, ii,' 11 \'lH)ck Oil tht· t~Hlc\:l;Jtiol1s hn"C't\ on the photographc~.
I;rom :1 study of till' sh:tdow!< ;tPJlcilril~F. in the picture, he could show
COJ1":}lIsiv('lr that :J(:t"1I11y picture Ii .. as taken eal'l i.or than pict:nc fl.,
cmJ tha" the tllnc iTltc'TvaJ hp""'ccn the two pictllr r2S was more than an
hour, rather t:lwn heil1~ ](,0,,' than two nlinutcs a' chimed.
so