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Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Condon Report)

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The study whose conclusion, that nothing of scientific value had come from twenty-one years of UFO reports, gave the Air Force its reason to close Project Blue Book. Its own case chapters left about a third of the cases unexplained, including McMinnville. Speakers quote the summary and the case chapters against each other.

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IdentifierScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (University of Colorado / USAF contract; Bantam 1969); Air Force Study 44620Y67C-0035
Issuing bodyUniversity of Colorado, under Air Force contract; director Edward U. Condon
Date
Kindreport
Statusexists as a document; retrieved and read
Wherehttps://files.ncas.org/condon/text/sec-i.htm
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Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.

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  • 1:43:43 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) ▶
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Condon Report and the closing of Project Blue Book, McMinnville (Trent) photographs, McMinnville (Trent) photographs. Open the full map filtered to this record.

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Events
Condon Report and the closing of Project Blue BookMcMinnville (Trent) photographs
People
Edward CondonJ. Allen HynekJacques Vallée
Footage
McMinnville (Trent) photographs

Sources on this record

  • 1:04:57 If You Still Think UFOs Are Fake, Watch This (David Grusch Interview) ▶
    who'd also worked on the Manhattan Project. Condon was involved. Oh, I didn't realize that. Oh, yeah, he worked with Vannevar Bush a lot. Oh, really? Oh yeah, yeah. Edward Euler Condon was a mid-century quantum physicist, and no single person is more responsible for the marginalization of UFOs than this man and his
  • 0:38:38 Did Oppenheimer Work on UFOs? ▶
    known as the Condon committee this uh you know in Boulder Boulder Colorado this commission which is basically you know rigged to basically show that all us efforts when it comes to studying UFOs were a total waste of time effort and money this was supposed to be independent of the Air Force but in fact Conan was in
  • 1:44:13 UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Bases Globally (Ft. Robert Hastings) ▶
    shots who also worked on the Manhattan Project Condon was involved oh I didn't that he uh worked with vavar bush a lot oh yeah yeah the Condon committee was supposed to be an open independent investigation of UFOs in 1966 at the tail end of Project Blue Book among the Project's dozen experts are director Dr Edward
  • Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Condon Report) University of Colorado, under Air Force contract; director Edward U. Condon · 8 January 1969

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