Questions or comments can be sent to the Campus Community Book Project organizers by email.(Read more information about the commitment below) Sign up online to help plan activities related to the 2022-23 book, or to help select the 2023-24 book.In 1969, in response to the Condon Report as well as a declining number of UFO sightings, Project Blue Book was officially brought to an end among its conclusions were that of the sightings categorized as “unidentified,” there was no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that they were the result of technology beyond the range of modern scientific knowledge or that they were extraterrestrial vehicles. According to the Condon Report, the sightings they examined showed no evidence of any unusual activity, and recommended that the Air Force stop investigations into UFO-related incidents.
Edward Condon and based at the University of Colorado, released its “Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”–better known as the Condon Report–in 1968. In 1966, the Air Force had requested the formation of another committee to look into the details of 59 UFO sightings investigated by Project Blue Book. The remaining 700 incidents remained “unidentified” these included cases in which there was insufficient information to assign the event a known cause. Similarly to the Robertson Panel, Blue Book would eventually classify more than 90 percent of these as “identified,” meaning they were caused by a known astronomical, atmospheric or artificial (man-made) phenomenon. Over the next 17 years, Project Blue Book would compile reports of 12,618 UFO sightings or related events. Allen Hynek, the Astronomer Who First Classified UFO 'Close Encounters' The Condon Report The panel’s findings were not fully declassified until 1979, feeding suspicions that a government conspiracy was in the works. Fully 90 percent of the sightings, according to the Robertson Panel, could be attributed to astrological or meteorological activity, or to man-made causes such as balloons or searchlights. The panel concluded that there was no basis for the so-called extraterrestrial hypothesis, and that UFOs posed no security threat. The Robertson Panel met for three days, during which they interviewed military officers and Blue Book officials and reviewed photos and film of supposed UFOs. READ MORE: When UFOs Buzzed the White House and the Air Force Blamed the Weather The Surprising Religious Diversity of America's 13 Colonies
Robertson of the California Institute of Technology, to discuss the UFO issue. In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) responded to these fears by assembling an expert panel of scientists, headed by physicist H.P. Truman feared an outbreak of hysteria over the issue. Alarmed by the striking number of UFO sightings reported in 1952, the administration of President Harry S. government’s official inquiries into UFOs. Headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, Project Blue Book would become the longest running of the U.S. The Air Force’s UFO-related inquiries took place against a backdrop of frenzied popular interest in the strange flying objects, which reached its peak soon after Project Blue Book began in 1951. Fighter Pilot Got into a Dogfight with a UFO Formation of Project Blue Book & the Robertson Panel Among the initial theories of the project’s participants was that some UFOs were actually Soviet aircraft (this was the Cold War era, after all), although they also posed the hypothesis that some might be extraterrestrial spacecraft. Air Force launched Operation Sign in 1948. (The Army claimed the object in question was the wreckage of a weather balloon, claims that conspiracy-minded “ufologists” would later dispute.) In response to the increasing number of UFO-related reports, the U.S. Did you know? Kenneth Arnold compared the movement of the nine mysterious objects over Mount Rainier to that of "a saucer if you skip it across water." This statement later led to the misconception that the objects were shaped like saucers, and to the widespread use of "flying saucer" as a synonym for UFO.Īfter news of Arnold’s experience hit the media, a rash of similar sightings were reported across the United States, including a highly controversial report of what appeared to be a crashed UFO near a U.S.
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