BookskepticGovernment Report1968

Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (The Condon Report)

The University of Colorado's Air Force-funded study reviewed hundreds of Project Blue Book, NICAP, and APRO case files plus newly investigated sightings, concluding UFO study was unlikely to yield major scientific discoveries — a verdict that led directly to Blue Book's 1969 closure, even though roughly a third of the report's own case studies were left formally unexplained.

Author
Edward U. Condon (dir.)
Published
1968
Library rank
#22

Why it matters

The report that officially ended U.S. government UFO investigation for nearly five decades, despite its own unresolved case residue.