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Condon Committee

Also known as: Condon Report, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, Condon study

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claimThe Condon Report, a scientific study of UFOs, licensed scientists and officials to ignore the phenomenon, according to Leslie Kean's book.

referenceIn 1972, J. Allen Hynek published "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Enquiry," which served as a critique of Project Blue Book and the Condon Report.

claimThe Condon Report provided a justification for scientists and government officials to disregard the study of U.F.O.s.

claimEdward Condon wrote the summary and 'Conclusions and Recommendations' section of the Condon Report, concluding that further extensive studies of U.F.O.s could not be justified.

claimOne of the Condon Report's researchers wrote that the apparently rational, intelligent behavior of the U.F.O. suggests a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most probable explanation of the 1956 sighting near a U.S. Air Force base in England.

claimThe coordinator of the Condon Report proposed that scientists should frame UFO sightings to their colleagues as psychological and social phenomena, specifically as metaphors for Cold War anxiety or ambivalence about technology.

claimIn 1972, J. Allen Hynek published "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Enquiry," which served as a postmortem on Project Blue Book and the Condon Report and provided a blueprint for systematic U.F.O. research.

claimEdward Condon wrote the summary and the "Conclusions and Recommendations" section of the Condon Report, despite having only a glancing familiarity with the rest of the nine-hundred-page document.

accountIn a 1956 incident near a U.S. Air Force base in England, a preternaturally fast object was recorded on multiple radars, leading one of the Condon Report's researchers to conclude that the object's rational, intelligent behavior suggested a mechanical device of unknown origin.

accountIn 1956, multiple radars near a U.S. Air Force base in England recorded a preternaturally fast object, which a Condon Report researcher noted suggested a mechanical device of unknown origin as the most probable explanation.

measurementOf the ninety-one Project Blue Book cases selected for examination in the Condon Report, thirty remained official mysteries.

measurementThe Condon Report examined ninety-one cases from Project Blue Book, of which thirty remained official mysteries.

perspectiveJ. Allen Hynek argued that the Condon Report was flawed because it focused on disproving any conjecture about alien spaceships, whereas a proper approach should be agnostic and biased in favor of neither extraterrestrial craft nor conventional explanations like weather or Venus.

claimThe Condon Report, formally titled the "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects," was completed in the late fall of 1968.

claimThe Condon Report, a scientific study of UFOs, licensed scientists and officials to ignore the phenomenon, leading the media to treat UFOs as science fiction.

perspectiveEdward Condon, the lead of the "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects," concluded that further extensive studies of UFOs could not be justified because they would not advance science, and he advised that schoolchildren should not receive credit for work involving UFOs.

perspectiveEdward Condon concluded in the Condon Report that further extensive studies of U.F.O.s probably could not be justified because science would not be advanced by them.

claimThe Condon Report, formally titled the "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects," was completed in the late fall of 1968.

measurementOf the ninety-one Project Blue Book cases selected for examination in the Condon Report, thirty remained official mysteries.

perspectiveLeslie Kean concluded that the U.S. government had concealed a persistent interest in UFOs, despite the findings of the Condon Report.

perspectiveEdward Condon concluded in the Condon Report that further extensive studies of U.F.O.s probably could not be justified because science would not be advanced by them.

claimLeslie Kean claims that the Condon Report provided scientists and officials with a justification to ignore the subject of UFOs.

measurementOf the ninety-one Project Blue Book cases selected for examination in the Condon Report, thirty remained official mysteries.

claimLeslie Kean writes in her book that the Condon Report provided scientists and officials with a justification to ignore U.F.O. phenomena, while the media treated the subject as science fiction.

perspectiveLeslie Kean concluded that, despite the Condon Report, the U.S. government had concealed a persistent interest in UFOs.

claimA researcher for the Condon Report stated that the rational and intelligent behavior of a UFO observed in 1956 suggested a mechanical device of unknown origin was the most probable explanation.

claimThe Condon Report, a scientific study of UFOs, influenced scientists and government officials to disregard the subject of UFOs.

quoteLeslie Kean writes that following the Condon Report, "the media could enjoy the ride while making fun of UFOs or relegating them to science fiction."

claimThe Condon Report, as described by Leslie Kean, provided scientists and government officials with the justification to ignore the subject of U.F.O.s.

claimEdward Condon wrote the summary and the "Conclusions and Recommendations" section of the Condon Report, concluding that further extensive studies of U.F.O.s were not justified.

perspectiveIn his 1972 book "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Enquiry," J. Allen Hynek criticized Project Blue Book and the Condon Report, arguing that Blue Book's goal was to explain away UFOs rather than explain them, and that the Condon Report was biased toward disproving the existence of alien spaceships.

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claimIn 1970, the United States Air Force issued a statement claiming that the UFO chapter in the U.S. Air Force Academy's Space Sciences course was outdated and that cadets were instead being informed of the Condon Report's negative conclusion.

referenceThe Condon Report, a study by the University of Colorado led by Edward U. Condon, concluded in 1969 that nothing from the study of UFOs in the previous 21 years had added to scientific knowledge and that further investigation could not be justified.

accountMagnesium fragments recovered in Ubatuba, Brazil, in 1957 were analyzed by the Brazilian government, the Condon Report, and other entities as potential UFO artifacts.

claimThe Condon Committee, a public research effort conducted for the United States Air Force, published the Condon Report in 1968, which arrived at a negative conclusion regarding the existence or significance of UFOs.

perspectiveJames E. McDonald, in an address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), stated that he believed science had failed to mount adequate studies of the UFO problem and criticized the Condon Report and earlier studies by the United States Air Force as scientifically deficient.

perspectiveThe Condon Report was harshly criticized by numerous scientists, particularly at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), which recommended moderate but continuous scientific work on UFOs.