AIR FORCE CONTRACT LET FOR FLYING SAUCER STUDY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100910002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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UFOs for about 20 year is ings," ar.d will have a "co
mb, tnves tga~tng an evalu
ing the reports."
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ward U. Condon, was to ~ out-
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the ~ American', Activities Committ
will possess quasi-legal powe
such as that 'of subpoena a
the taking? of -sworn testitno;
he said no:
The contract was described
"more or less open-ende
meaning ?that .the $330,000
reso u ton was spansare y
cai?ed Trim "one of the weakest I Rep. Edward Hutchinson, R-
i:;;s .. o,:r atomic security." ~.l4ich.
is security clearance subse-
,- q;really was lifted and then re-
~. ,sto: ed.
An ato:.nic scientist, he for-
;,,erly wt~s the director of the
~ aior.al Bureau of Standards
s anc later research director for
- Crirni.ng Grass Works.
a There were pressures last
,'spring -for a congressional in-
vestigation of UFOs after a
s' flurry of a?eporied sightings of
~~ ..~ysterious objects.
s House Republican Leader
Gerald )ti. Ford of Diichigan had
In addition to the Colorado
University study, the Air Force.
said the National Academy of
Sciences has vtdicated its will-
ingness to appoint a panel which
would review the Colorado rep
port when it is completed.
"This panel will not be part,
of the investigating team, .but`
will provide a further independ-
ent check on the scientific vali-
dity of the method of investiga-
tion," the Air Fm?ce said.
Since 1943 the Air Force has
received about 11,000 reports of
UFO sightings. Of these, the Air
Force says, it leas been a'ie to' '
identify or otherwise explain:
the nature of all but 655.
To date; the Air Force says .
its "firm conclusions" are that
no UFO has ever given any in-
dication of threat to national
security. Nor, it says, has any'
evidence come forth that sight-,
ings which it categorized as un-
identified are spacecraft from
other planets.
The Air Force said the uni-
versity's research will not alter
the Air Fot?ce's responsibilities'
of receiving; investigating and!
evaluating UFO reports. '. ,
total amount that may'bc s;~
in probing the saucer myste
The spokesman expressed t
belief that an extension of t
15-month?contract is quite p
Bible.
Work will begin Nov. 1, t
Air `Force said. A report
supposed to be rendered tc t
Air Force Office of Scienti
Research- , by eat;ly 1968, "b
.,may or may .not. be the fin
report:" ?
Condon was the center a:
scientific. furor in 1948 after
subcommittee of the House
t called for a congressional study
of the matter, and later Air
~, r arce officials promised that
~. a scientific pat;el of civilians
_ would be gYV. n the opportunity
to ;Hake an independent investi-
gation.
A reso?ution authorizing the
:louse 1~?med Services Cony-
mittee to conduci an investiga-
ti,;n ar.d study of reports of
t miidentified flyinc objects was
1 referred to t're Rules Committee
in Vay.
The Rules Committee has
given no indication whether it
? intends to act on the resolution
cefore Congress adjourns. The
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