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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.
As to dependence on sex , 22'\, of J1len or wOl1len have no opinion as to
the "real i ty" of fl~ri ng sauS
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The poll "llOwed that. increaseJ amount of formal cuucatioll is
a"soci3.teu wi th an ill\.'l'ca:;cd tcndency to believc in the reall ty of'
fl)'in" S(1lll'cr~. l'erlHljls this rc~ult says Sfjnlctltillg about how the school
,,)'stem trains ~;tuJl'nt~; in critic,d thinki .Ig,
An interesting correlation is fourJ between tendency to believe in
'JFO reaL ty, and to bel i cve i!' I LE with havi ng had a personal experiellce
of having seen oln UFO. The results are:
0" believing
UFOs are 1'(' a 1 in .I IX
Si g."lters 76 51
Non-sighters 4b 34
As before, causal relat ion!', are unexplored; we do not know whether
seeing is believing, or bellevjng is seeing,
In the 1968 study (',wducted for the ColOlndo project by the
Opinion Re5~arch Corporation, 2,050 adults over 17 years of age, living
in private households in the continental United States were inter'/i",wccI.
In ;lddi tion teenagers in the same housri101J wi th an ,Idui t who wa!;
intervit'wed were also intervicw('u to give <l sample of theIr views,
Separate ~tudie5 of opinlons held hy college students were conducted.
111l~5e ':'C I'l'POl'tCL; in ~'~cct iOJ1 111, ChdptCl' 7,
In tllC' I~)ld~ !'l:rvey, 3', ot adu.lt~ rep I ;('J !lffi rmativc1y to "lIave
you, yourself, cv('r sel'n all UFO," Tlll~ IH,rallds the 5'6 whu answ('r~d
:lffirmativl'ly in the l!lf'l(- Callup pr.1i to the simi 1ar (\\Je~tion. "!lave
~'Oll ever S(,l'n ~ll1ytliln~ that YOll thour,ht was a ';:.;ying saucer"?" On0
l11i~ht think that the slIlltller number i.n 1968 could he explained by
perhup!I l('ss fami I iarity of tht' :JUld lc wi tit the term UFO than wi th the
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