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C f~ I C kj /" C "Some person or animal," the Condon U IN V* t. ' _^ report solemnly states, "had performed ! : an act of micturition there." INVESTIGATIONS fired from the Colorado team bitterly at- Ford Motor Co. scientists were called _ / p i tacked his tormcr colleagues, their mo- in to study a saucer-based theory that baucers End lives and their metnoas; the powerful magnetic field generated The 1,465-page report was the prod- Article ot haith. Saucer buffs had around a UFO stalls nearby cars by disuct of a.two-year, $500,000 investigation good reason to be annoyed. The Col- rupting their electrical systems. Responsored by the Air Force and con- orado investigation destroyed some of searchers had previously found that an ducted by a team of University of Col- their favorite theories with simple, ra- extremely strong magnetic field imposed orado scientists led by respected Phys- tional explanations for several classic upon an ignition coil would indeed stall icist Edward Condon. It had been thor- UFO sightings and incidents. Some be- a car; but the Ford experts pointed out oughly reviewed and then approved by lievers, for example, are certain that sau- that the field would also permanently the prestigious National Academy of cers come from a planet named Clar- change the normal magnetic pattern in Sciences. Thus, when the Scientific ion that is always on the opposite side the metal of the auto body. When they •> Study of Unidentified Flying Objects of the sun from the earth and always hid- compared a car reportedly immobilized was finally made public last week, it den from terrestrial viewers. With cal- by a saucer with identical models that spoke with' authority. Its conclusions culations made by U.S. Naval Obser- were nowhere near the site of the inall but demolished the idea that earth vatory scientists, the Condon group was cident, the Ford men found that'its maghas been visited by creatures from oth- able to show that variations in the or- netic pattern was no different from the et planets. Despite a few remaining puz- bital path of Clarion would soon make others. Their conclusion: the stalled car zles, there is no evidence, said the re- it visible from earth. Besides, Clarion's had never been subjected to an intense port, that UFOs are spaceships from gravity would affect the motion of Ve- magnetic field—from a UFO or anyextraterrestrial civilizations and no sci- nus. Since Clarion has not been seen, thing else. entific justification at this time for any and the orbit of Venus shows no signs The Condon forces also launched an further extensive saucer investigations, of mysterious perturbations, the scien- attack on some of the most cherished The still loyal legions of flying-sau- lists concluded that Clarion d e oes not UFO photographs. Traveling to Fort Belcer believers protested indignantly. In exist. . • * voir, Va., where an Army private had Washington, the National Investigations A fragment of metal that reportedly photographed a ringlike UFO in 1957, in-.. Committee for Aerial Phenomena (NI- fell to earth in 1957 when a UFO ex- vestigators showed the picture to Army - CAP) called a press conference to charge ploded in the air above the state of technicians. The technicians immediatethat the study ignored "the vast major- Sao Paulo, Brazil, was sent to a Wash- ly identified the UFO as a vortex ring ity of reliable, unexplained UFO sight- ington laboratory for analysis. It had ' formed when diesel oil, gasoline and ing cases." Physicist James McDonald, been an article of faith among many sau- white phosphorus was exploded by TNT. one of the few reputable scientists who cer believers that the fragment consisted to simulate atomic-bomb explosions durside with the saucer buffs, insisted that of magnesium more pure than any ever ing demonstrations.. the Condon group "wasted an unprec- made by man. The lab tests, said the re- With the assistance of a photo anedented opportunity" to make a sci- port, suggested an earthly origin; the alyst from the Raythebn Co., the Conentific study of the UFO problem. In fragment contained more impurities than don group found discrepancies in a pair UFOs? Yes!, a rambling book published" commercially produced magnesium. of saucer photographs taken in 1966 to coincide with the release of the Con- Another UFO landmark, a "claw- by a barber in his front yard in Rosedon report, a psychologist* who was shaped" marking on the dry sand of a ville, Ohio. Although the barber in- ~ '. ; ' ~ ~~" beach that was pictured in a special sisted that he had shot the pictures less * After leaking the contents of a private Look issue on flying saucers, turned than two minutes apart, the analyst surmemo to outsiders. out to be merely urine-soaked sand. veyed the yard and determined from OHIO OBJECT r- V ;,'', •% ^ , . , CALIFORNIA CIRCLE i, _ -=£7 ~~' : .5-~'~:~'* f !: r '' i '^£~'~f .£^25li . ; - -f 1^"* -.S-'^j. ^.-i ':.^~ ^,~^jl"?^:' '*-. """—'* '" CONDON, UFO & REPORT SEi; -- : »•-. • ". .. ; -
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