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SUBJECT: ASSORTED AP REPORTS FILE: UFO3076
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PART 5
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Article #: 12
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 09-23-1986
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Subject: 1969 NO VISITS FROM AFAR
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SOURCE: NYT
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DATE: 08 JANUARY 1969
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UFO FINDING: No Visits From Afar
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Though the findings by the U of Colordo UFO study have not yet been made
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public, the AP yesterday circulated a fragmentary account of the principal
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conclusions in the report. It is expected that the report will be made
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public
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at the same time as the evaluation by the National Academy of Sciences
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requested by USAF.
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After investigating hundreds of UFO incidents, Dr. Condon and his staff found
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that a number of episodes previously classed as inexplicable could be
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accounted for by natural means or by hoaxes. In some cases, witnesses with
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seemingly impeccable credentials were found to be self-contradictory and
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hence their accounts were of little value. The document states that no
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evidence could be found that UFOs were intelligently guided spacecraft from
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beyond the earth and thus a large scale effort to determine the nature of
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flying saucers would be a waste of time and money. There was also no
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evidence found that the government was withholding information about the
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objects from the public, except a reasonable USAF policy of delaying comment
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until an investigation was completed.
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The Colorado group seems to have made every effort to remain aloof from any
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USAF influence. Thus, the cases it investigated were chosen largely from the
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recommendations of private groups, particularly NICAP. But as the
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investigative phase of the project drew to a close in late 1967, there was a
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falling out between Dr. Condon and Donald Keyhoe of NICAP, alledgedly because
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of Dr. Condon's lack of sympathy for the view that some UFOs may be
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visitations from other worlds.
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Other UFO enthusiasts were disenchanted when an internal university
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memorandum
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was presented in a magazine of national circulation as an indication of bias
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against proponents of the unidentified objects. The document, written before
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the project had begun, discussed whether the university could undertake the
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study without incurring ridicule from the academic world while still
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satisfying the public that an open-minded study was being made. Two members
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of the staff were dismissed, apparently for their role in removing the
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memorandum from the project's files. One was a psychologist, Dr. David R.
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Saunders, who had become
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a member of NICAP shortly before joining the Colorado project. This week a
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book went on sale written by Dr. Saunders a journalist from Boulder, R. Roger
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Harkins, entitled UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong. Saunders
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& Harkins argue that the Colorado investigation was a front contrived at the
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highest echelons of government to mask the truth, and that "someone on the
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project must be acting in a double role," which led to a mutual distrust
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among members.
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PHOTOGRAPH: Dr. Condon (portrait) AP same as previous photograph of Condon
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Article #: 13
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 07-11-1986
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Subject: 1947 CRASHED DISK ROSWELL
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SOURCE: NEWS, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
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DATE: 8 JULY 1947
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PLACE: ROSWELL, NM
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BULLETIN:
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ROSWELL, N.M., JULY 8 - Possession of a "flying disk" was disclosed today by
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the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Grop of Roswell Army Air Base.
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Oficers at the base say the "disk" was flown in a Super-Forttress to "higher
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headquarters" undisclosed.
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The intelligence office reported that it gained possession of the "disk:
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through the co-operation of a Roswell rancher and George Wilson, sheriff at
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Roswell.
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The disk landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone
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facilities, the rancher, whose name has not yet been obtained, stored the
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disk
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until such time as he was able to reach the Roswell sheriff's office.
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The air base refused to give details of construction of the disk or its
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appearance.
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Residents near the ranch on seeing a strange blue light several days ago
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about
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3:00 a.m.
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Article #: 14
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 07-12-1986
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Subject: 1966 SIGHTINGS PEAK 1,060
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SOURCE: NYT ( DAYTON, OH )
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DATE: 15 FEBRUARY 1967
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SIGHTINGS OF UFOs NEAR PEAK DURING 1966
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Maj. Hector Quintanella, director of USAF's Project Blue Book, says a total
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of 1,060 reports of unidentified flying objects were submitted to USAF during
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1966, the second highest year's total since Blue Book began keeping records
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20 years ago.
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The record high of 1,501 was in 1952; the annual average is 555. Of the
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11,107
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reports since 1947, 676 remain unidentified, 30 of them from 1966.
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