For UFO Study? - The Black Vault

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•'•'.•. - • : • ' • By Associated Press
:
WASHINGTON.—A blue-ribbon committee of the National
Academy of Sciences will agree with the main conclusion of.a secret
report on a scientific investigation that says there is'no evi-
..; dence to indicate that unidentified flying objects are spaceshps
'from another world. . - •-•. . ....
• This was learned Wednesday '- . . • . •
as the Air Force, which fi- method of investigation." It will
n a n C'C d the $500,000, two-year be released simultaneously witjh
study, was preparing, to release the report. . ,
.the long-awaited report. . The Associated Press re-
The study, commissioned by vealed the main conclusion of
the Air Force as an "independ- the Condon report Tuesday, but
ent" one to answer persistent . th e f e had been no leak on the
criticism of its own investiga- reaction of the academy panel,
tions, was conducted by a group working amid security so tight
of' non-government scientists , th at even the names of commit^
headed by'Dr. Edward U. Con- tee members are a secret,
don of the University of Colora- Informed . sources disclosed
do
.Wednesday,.however, that the
Since Nov. 15, the project's : academy panel will endorse the
secret report has been under re-"primary finding that there is no
view by the special panel of the evidence to s u p p o r t theories
prestigious Academy of Sci- that UH) 5 ' or flying saucers,
-ences. The appraisal was asked are of extraterrestrial origin,
by the Air Force to "provide a The sources said this Is "the
further independent check on only sensible scientific concluthe
scientific v a 1 i d i t y of the s i° n that could be drawn" from
- -• • u •. _j.. ^-«. s t u d i e s made by the Condon
'•^project. ./'-•• .