GovernmentBoulder, CO

Condon Report released

Portrait photograph of physicist Edward U. Condon
Physicist Edward Condon, who led the University of Colorado UFO study National Institute of Standards and Technology, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

An Air Force-funded University of Colorado study led by physicist Edward Condon was made public. It concluded that further UFO study was unlikely to advance science, and the Air Force later cited it when closing Project Blue Book.

Evidence
Significance

Sources

  1. OfficialScientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Volume 1 (AD680975), E. U. Condon, University of ColoradoNational Technical Information Service (NTRL) / 1969
  2. OfficialUnidentified Flying Objects and Air Force Project Blue Book (fact sheet)U.S. Air Force
  3. PressEdward Condon: A Physicist Never Afraid Of A Fight (Physics Today, March 1969)American Institute of Physics / 1969-03

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