For UFO Study? - The Black Vault

'* T.iesdov. Jon: 7r 1969 Green Boy Press-Gazette j
c. • WASHINGTON (AP) — A se^ ;:;''•'telligent life '•. exists beyond the V. ; . ..refuses to ''divulge any informa- . Condon's study in the face of , . ty. The organization said it had ,
t cret report on an Air Force-£i-..'ill; earth. Instead, it will emphasize : -lions even the names of commit- persistent criticism of its own broken relations with the Con- /
•V nanced investigation, of flying "'/.' '.'-'that the investigation uncovered -.'. tee members. -.. UFO investigations, begun 20 don group after what it called 17 .,
:*;, saucers .will say * there is rio : '-'.'.;-I ; jvho scientific evidence to support- .• AF Study Criticized years ago and still continuing. ,. months of cooperation.
£• scientific evidence .to •Jndicate^^conteritions-by ;various individu-V ; Fj ndin g S of the academy com- Critics of the Air Force claim The House Space and Astron- ,
! -, ; that these unidentified1.flying ob-; : ::>;' ; al scientists and private organi- ',. , its studies are biased against . autics Committee held o. "semi- •
••; jects are spaceships'from anoth- ; ':.-;'.••zatiohs that flying saucers are mittee are to oe attacnea to ine ^ possibility that UFO's are ' • nar" on UFO's last July. '.
f -er world. .... '•,•"'-..•. ,' ! -^.v-,visitors from a distant' planet., . .: ^ep °" l ° T^ n\v'tpntari^! manned surveillance craft from Ground rules prohibited specific 'i
/ .' Informed sources.told The As-.?''.,:', The study, "financed by a ••. •..-oy me Air *orce, now reniauve-. other spaf;C( and accuse it o{ . discussion of the Condon proj- '.
:l v .sociated. Press that this will be; J !-:, ;$500,000 grant from the Air j .' ^ scneauiea tor *naay. ^ withholding information that . ect, but Rep. William F. Ryan, j
.,•' the primary thrust of the close-'•:'.'•:.-' : .Force, was made by a team of •'...'.•^ Dr. .Condon, 65, a physicist might prove the contention. The D-N.Y., asked Dr. James E. '.;•
r, ly-guarded report on a two : year'' ; \' ; , scientists under Dr. Edward U. v'. and a former chief of. the U.S. Air Force has vigorously denied . . McDonald, senior physicists at ,;
V .study by a team of 'nongovern- '..': Condon-of the University of Col- .. .National Bureau of Standards, botn accusations. the University of Arizona.'s In- ;'
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: . • '• has repeatedly refused to talk Expect Controversy ' . . • stitute of. Atmospheric Physics, -|
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• Tight Security '-', ' ':.'V : J
•, Tight security has been im-... -; .about the findings of the proj- , ' J. .
whether more study than the ,'•
-" The 'sources said 'the report.:-',;, /posed on- the project from the '..".•;_, ect. •
ine . upcoming report appears • Colorado project was needed. 1
,> ..will not claim that,the study .; ; ••'•/start, and authorities are still-'" • Condon's project staff includ- certain to prompt renewed con- : "Emphatically yes," the wit- <
5., .produced proof that. UFO's 1 .are^'f.;/''-.'working hard to guard against'. - ed a dozen astronomers, physi- -'. • . troversy. • ness replied. "We need a broad- j
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Irnot manrted surveillance craft ^.C; leaks. /..
• .' cists and psychologists. He also ' Last .May, the National Inves-, er base. The National Aeronau- J
I'i' from outer space.' "You' can't/.' 1 -' ". The.. 1,000-page report has -'.".'enlisted the aid of outside con- .. .-' tigations Committee on Aerial . tics and Space Administration '\
t.;prove a negative,' 1 the.sources' ;" been -turned over, at the Air • sultants, and contracted' with Phenomena—a private group '( or the National Science Founda-
?•'• said. • ' ''."'"•'-••'../;•'.•'• ;-',•;*•'':'Force's request, to a special ap- private agencies for some re- that gathers information on tion ought to support some uni ; •''
ft:." Neither, 'they'/said,'.'' w '|ii
J t ., ;. praisal^^ committee of the Nation-'.' search. 1 . . "' flying saucers—charged that the versities to make, studies of.
-^question -ttie. possibility, that ln- ; ;
• •-.- al Academy'ofSdences/\vhicb' • The Au-Force .coinmissioned, Condon study .lacked impartial!- UFT.s." . • '