For UFO Study? - The Black Vault

Jan. 9,1969 ST. LOU IS POST-DISPATCH
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 - A (^ an ob.;ect tnoug.u to be cap-
Colorado-based scientific group ? b! * ° f "ig-n but seen when
'says there is no evidence that
!anded on earth) that the obunidentified
flving objects come
se - rver cou ' d not identify a s hav-
•from outer space and no scien-
1R * an O . rdlna f. v P^ura! origin.
; tific justification for pursuing . Defmed m th ' s^ ^ Conr
the matter further.
don T e P° rt said there 1S
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'• . , , ,... ,., .. , question as to the existence of
,v And, a panel of the National £ FQ because UFQ
f Academy of Sciences has fa , w , , £
. agreed m general with the con- th Uffl ,* f * -
:- :££ °^ ^,?STtS by this definition ' an UFO "
, ^.^ »^y, financed by • The tu e f 0r v I emP ! ia f 1 Zed> v,« OW "
Air Force and headed by ever, that wh.le not all s.ghhngs
have been Ed ward U.Condon, physicist ^olved as natural
and former director of the Na- P, h e f ° m ,f n a suc^ as c ouds.
' tional Bureau of Standards. ?' anets ' balloons , a " d a 'rp'an«,. •
. _.. . ,-. , there is no sound basis for as-
The r e p o r t parts of wh.ch sumin that th are , phenome .
leaked out earlier, was made na of a weird or eitra^rrestrial
public at the Pentagon today. It nature
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comprises three volumes total- More Study Opposed..
ing 1438 pages of-typescript plus « 0 u r ' general conclusion is
a 25-page index. .
ssps
that nothing has come from the
partment of Defense hoped it. £" r l h « r extensive study of
„. ,, . ,. . ,, *^ UFOs probably cannot be justiwould
extmguish P expectation that sci-.
Findings Disputed .... *, ... . ,.
Even before the report was ence will be advanced thereby."
released, a p r e s s conference M If oth ,f sc i ent i, sts do /et. . .
was called by a leading flying ldea ? ff" fur t her s , tud y> and
saucer enthusiast to dispute its can foula te them clearly . . .
we conclusions. He is Donald E. ^"^ *at such ideas should
! Keyhoe, a retired Marine major
be , supported,'; the report stat-
! who heads a Washington-based . ed We do not
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organization called National In- time that ^e Government ought
vestigations Committee on Aeri- to set up a major new agency,
al Phenomena. Keyhoe was sin- « some have suggested, for the
gled out in the report as a sen- .scientific study of UFOs."
sationalist who has s p a r k e d There is no evidence, the republic
interest in the bizarre as- port declared, of any defense
pects of UFOs'and an obstruc- hazard from • UFOs, or of any
tionist who interfered' with the conspiracy of secrecy by the
Condon group's inquiries.. . Air Force or any other Govern-
The scientists did • not deny ment agency. • • .. • '
that UFOs exist; indeed, they • In an appraisal released with
•remarked that the phrase uni- the report, the National-Acade-
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dentified flying objects well de- my of Sciences concurred.in the
scribes what the sightings really findings of the-Condon group
are: • and commended the 'way .in
•_• "The stimulus for a report which the study'was carried
made by one or more individu-. out. . . . • -