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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.
“National Academy of Sciences”3 pages
C~A A~- of' the - 1 1 L ~ C6loradop Report on Unidentif~ied Flying OL'jccts, by a Pancl,'of the National Acadubfy, of -Sciences 'The panel was appointed ih the la ttcrpart -of Octohecr and -eart.y Npvember 1968., The charge to' the, Pa'nel was "to provide ain independent 9asse,§ýmcnt of ýthe- sc6pc, ine~thodoJlogy, -and finidings, 6f the- (University -of Col1orado) study as refilccted-in the (University's') Reoft. WletePne.1 largeqly restrict-ed its re~view to this 9 cýharge,, it was thought botn a~ppropr-iate afid nbces'sar'y that the :Pancl become faufiiiiar, with various scic-entlficý 'o *nts of view asi _pre~scntc.-d in other publ:icatibns and -reports b'y technically trainEd, S pqrmons.. - It was not the task of 'the,'Panel to Conduct its, own study -of' UFOs. or to 'invite advocates, scientif icall y trained, or -not . of' Vatfous po,:*hts of view 'to hearings.- The t6ask-was to study the Un55iVersity'sRep-orf and- to assess:, First, its; scope-; namcly, d~id" 'theRepq'iT, in the 'opinion of the Pane:ý, cover' those topits- thcA~t a sclenti~fi6 study of 'UFO' phenomaen~a 'should have embracecj-? *, Second,, its ffiethodology; namely'; aOid' tib Re-port,. in the opinion of -,the.YPane1,--reveal ati accepae sihtif'ib-methodology and 40~ro46 to thce- subject? Third,, itý fihdihgs; namely, were the -Y-;.cnCus'p~ns -anid. interpretations warxzift~d iby the 6'idence and Iye -aspresented'in the R6Port affd wer'e they reasonable? 9 Iift'h6 course of its review the Pahi~l coilsulted papers -ioi tihe'same.'subject by teph'nica'J.ly trained pe~rsons (for example, -W~llibni Marko'wi~tz, "IThe Physic6s and, Metaphysics of 'Unidefitif iedi Flying., Ob-jects," Scie~nce,, 157, 19' pp. ."1274-79,. Jamies E. VMcl~ofald,, 11Sc1,n&en_'T~e'_cnology and UPOs,w1 presented, Januiary 26, '1968,' at a General Sepnciir, of the United Aircraft': Reseci'ch 9I,Aboiatories', }2ast flaftfbs j, Connectdctit. James E. McDonald, f1IUFOs, a- Ah International 'Scientikr-c Problcihi,"l prc~ented 'March 12,, 196, ýat the Canadiah -Aeronauti~cs and, Space Institute Ast*i'&haut~ics Symposiumý, 116ntreal), Canhada. Jamies E~. McDonald', I'týecn on Internatio6nal Scientifio Alspects of' the Prob~lems of Uriidc'nti-f led P.i~yilng Objects," ,sent to thie 'United Nationis -on June, 7,,, 19G7, Dool 11. Mbnze.J,ý,. -Plying- Saucers, Harvard Uriivcrisitty rs~ 9(C~b~dge152'. 'J~f ~JT~hze End 'Lylc 'G'. Boyd:', T'he VWorld of-Fying Sa'uce~rs, Doublechoy (New York~, 1%,3). Report fI Leigs 5C7cScc :i~ff7~ sory Panel. on Unidle:tif iod V J~yc~j~s, Jauri PT.lF-7 F-T6V T Q8i)i. -Advisory 1)c;.-rd, ad, hoc Z564.7-Efec'ec5k I: '1Zf ~ ~ 0.9,ii)i'1.fnGc ctpsLuWI~i' ~ xh~~FTIyin UI7Jets'E, koTings Represcntatives, 1ýinetic th Congress, Second Session, July 20, J.9CB).
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