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This DTIC release reproduces a National Academy of Sciences panel review of the University of Colorado report on unidentified flying objects, transmitted to Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Alexander H. Flax on January 8, 1969. The panel was chaired by Gerald M. Clemence and assessed the study's scope, methodology and findings. It found all three adequate and concurred that further extensive UFO study is not justified. It called extraterrestrial visitation the least likely explanation.
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"»ýThe ad hoc committee concurs 'with -he findings of the reporL of the University of
Colorado entitled "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects," Dr. Edward U.
Condon, Scieftific Director• Panel agrees that a study of UFOs in general is not
a promising way to expand scientific understaniing of the pheno-mena, and adds: "On
the basis of present knoowledge th3 least likely explanation of UFOs is the hypo-
thesis of extraterrestrial visita=ions bv intelligept beings."•%
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