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	Condon Report
		The Report attracted widespread criticism, not least from some parts of the scientific community, which felt that, whether or not the extraterrestrial hypothesis was valid, the Condon study had been too quick to dismiss certain well-documented UFO cases for which there was no obvious explanation.
		The "Condon Report," presenting the findings of the Colorado Project on a scientific study of unidentified flying objects, has been and remains the most influential public document concerning the scientific status of this problem.
		For this reason, it remains important to understand the contents of this report, the work on which the report is based, and the relationship of the "Summary of the Study" and "Conclusions and Recommendations" to the body of the report.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/CondonR.html (640 words)

	Condon Committee - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Condon Committee was the informal name of the University of Colorado UFO Project, a study of unidentified flying objects, undertaken at the University of Colorado and directed by physicist Edward Condon from 1966 to 1968.
		The Report’s conclusions were endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences, were generally welcomed by the scientific community, and have been cited as a decisive factor in the generally low levels of interest regarding UFOs among academics in subsequent years.
		Condon telephoned the president of the University of Arizona to report that McDonald had stolen the trick memo from the Project’s files, and also wrote a letter to the Air Force to deprecate Levine in an attempt to harm his security clearance.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Condon_Committee (7527 words)

	The Condon Report (Review/Comment by Stanton Friedman), UFO Casebook Files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Summary: The initially enthusiastic support [for the Condon study] from the major private UFO groups soon turned sour, as it became apparent that outspoken study director Dr. Edward Condon had concluded well in advance that there was nothing to be learned from investigating UFOS.
		Despite the open controversy, the final report of the Condon Committee was completed i n 1968, blessed by the National Academy of Sciences, and then published commercially.
		Condon's thoroughly negative summation was in stark contrast to the fascinating data buried in the lengthy report, where 30 percent Of the cases were left without c onventional explanation.
	www.ufocasebook.com /condonreportreview.html (339 words)

	Dr. Thornton Page's Review of the Condon Report
		The Condon report is not brief (989 pages), nor very humorous, and I cannot say that I have read every word of its 24 chapters and 24 appendices ranging over such physical topics as optics, radar, zodiacal light, plasma, and sonic boom, to history, perception, and psychology.
		Condon argues that his Colorado Project explained the majority of cases as normal phenomena, examined the "far-out" hypothesis of extraterrestrial visitors, and found (no direct evidence favoring it.
		For instance, there is a definite trend in the shapes reported from "saucers" in 1947 to "sickles" in 1960 to "cigars" in 1966, and also the eastward travel of "flaps" (maxima in UFO activity) circling the earth in about 15 years.
	www.cufon.org /cufon/tp_revue.htm (1134 words)

	ufo - UFOS at close sight: Hynek's review of the Condon report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yet UFO reports have proven to be at least a long-lived "craze"; three decades later it persists, in many levels of society, and in many areas of the world.
		The most useful reports come from people who are sophisticated, responsible, and mentally stable (as judged by commonly accepted standards), if only because they have so much to lose by "going public." Their "experiences" are almost certain to be greeted with disbelief, even ridicule, by their colleagues.
		Upon reporting a "strange balloon" (he was not going to report a UFO), the pilot was told that the crew of a British airlined at 40,000 feet, an instant before, had also reported an "unknown" object swishing by on a vertical trajectory into the sky.
	ufologie.net /htm/hynek01.htm (4328 words)

	Nuclear Files: Library: Biographies: Edward Ulher Condon
		Condon argued strongly against military control of atomic energy and the strict secrecy requirements that accompanied it.
		Condon was harassed for many years by the House Committee on Un-American Activies because of his activism on nuclear arms control issues and his interests in international cooperation during the Cold War anti-communist hysteria.
		Condon is also known by many for his role in a US Air Force study on UFO issues.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/library/biographies/bio_condon-edward.htm (365 words)

	SHG - The Condon Report and UFOs: Dr. J. Allen Hynek
		The report essentially is a collection of case histories and special reports by members of Dr. Condon's staff and investigators working under contract with the University of Colorado.
		One puzzling aspect of some UFO reports is an electrical damping effect which, according to witnesses, interrupts the ignition and shuts off the engine and lights of a moving automobile.
		Condon, and that is in his recommendation that science credit not be given in elementary schools for term papers and projects on UFOs.
	www.project1947.com /shg/articles/bas1.html (2908 words)

	Physics Today December 2001
		Condon's unabashed liberalism, energetic advocacy of arms control and internationalism in science, and high-level government profile placed him on a collision course with HUAC during the formative years of the red scare.
		Condon aided the atomic scientists' opposition to the May-Johnson bill, which contained strict secrecy regulations and placed atomic energy under military control, and he and Leo Szilard helped to spearhead the scientists' case that atomic energy should be under civilian, not military, authority.
		The report tried to portray Condon as untrustworthy and suspect because of the pending status of his security clearance with the AEC, his association with "an individual alleged, by a self-confessed Soviet espionage agent, to have engaged in espionage activities," his general associations with foreigners, and his connection to ASSS.
	www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-54/iss-12/p35.html (4415 words)

	UFO Evidence : The Condon Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The negative conclusion of the Report is more apparent than real however, since there is a substantial discrepancy between the conclusion in the "Summary of the Study" written by Condon singlehandedly, and the conclusion one could reasonably draw from the evidence presented in the body of the Report.
		The Condon Report (University of Colorado Report on UFOs, 1968)
		The Condon Report, the Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, commissioned by the Air Force in 1968, provides a complex case for the exploration of how the outcome and conclusions of the study were influenced by all that had gone on before in ufology.
	www.ufoevidence.org /topics/CondonReport.htm (1251 words)

	Condon Report, Case 52: Traffic Investigator Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The earliest document mentioning this photograph is a report by the witness and a NICAP investigator (2), and a letter by a local member of NICAP (3), both dated 25 September 1965.
		investigation report described the color as "silver or metallic except for dark areas which appeared to be either whitish or metallic such as that which could indicate light reflection from a relatively slow-moving propeller or rotating blade.
		The Marine report, apparently based on the interview of 18 September (although not prepared and dated until 22 September) says merely that "the object accelerated eastward toward the Saddleback mountains...he lost sight of the object due to the haze and distance (9)." The report carries only the first three photos.
	ncas.sawco.com /condon/text/case52.htm (6983 words)

	UFO Area 22 YEARS OF INADEQUATE UFO INVESTIGATIONS (part 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the Condon Report, the important initial incident in which the unknown 2800 MC source appeared to orbit the RB-47 near Gulfport is omitted.
		One of the many unsatisfactory aspects of the Condon Report is its frequent failure to put before the reader a complete account of the UFO cases it purports to analyze scientifically.
		In the Bluebook file, A/2c _____ is reported as describing it as a strong radar echo, comparable to that of a typical aircraft, until it weakened near the end of its path across his scope.
	www.ufoarea.com /events_condon_mcdonald2.html (3142 words)

	The level to which ufological debates can sink is at times discouraging. Character assasin
		This case is discussed at page 141 of the Condon Report and had been in Bluebook files f or years without serious investigation.
		The Bluebook 21-page report on this case lists it as "possible aircraft," citing the following analysis: The opinion of the preparing officer is that this object may possibly have been an unidentified aircraft, possibly confused by the runways at Kirtland AFB.
		The Condon Report devotes only t wo paragraphs to this case, cites the Air Force conclusion and adds that the private aircraft was "powerful" and was flying without a flight plan.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys1/condonuf.htm (674 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Condon’s ‘Kinsey’ Report
		Condon pulls no punches with Kinsey, choosing to include many of Kinsey’s lesser-known sexual exploits and his very objective (read: non-exclusive) approach to his personal sex life.
		But Condon remains optimistic, knowing that “when you take a subject like this one you know that people like that are waiting for you on the other side.
		This style of filmmaking is obviously very appealing to Condon, particularly in Gods and Monsters and Kinsey, “because it so reflects the time in which they’re happening and then taking that and obviously reinventing it.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=504453 (748 words)

	UFO Area 22 YEARS OF INADEQUATE UFO INVESTIGATIONS (part 6) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was impossible to estimate speed due to She short distance and times involved." That passage is quoted in the Condon Report, but not the next, which comes from Malven's summary and indicates that Lt. B only meant that it was impossible to estimate the target's speed with much accuracy.
		Had the Condon Report presented all of the information in the case-file, it would have been difficult to maintain the curious position that is maintained all of the way to the final conclusion about these radar events in the Condon Report's treatment of the Haneda case.
		The Condon Report next notes that; "The Air Force view is that this UFO was a small, powerful private aircraft, flying without flight plan, that became confused and attempted a landing at the wrong airport.
	www.ufoarea.com /events_condon_mcdonald6.html (5163 words)

	NICAP Disputes Condon Report (1/69)
		The NAS report fully accepting the project's conclusions and recommendations was based solely upon Colorado's report itself.
		Among the omissions in the Condon report are the hundreds of detailed UFO sightings by reputable witnesses whose intelligence and credentials make examinations of their reports essential.
		Reports by scientists were not the only category rejected by project investigators on the basis of their exclusion criteria.
	www.cohenufo.org /nicapcondon.htm (2674 words)

	The Hindu : ICC's views on Condon report today
		The solicitors went on to claim that it took Lord Condon five months - after a reminder in May - to produce the evidence which Stewart had asked to see as all he knew was what had been reported in the press.
		Tomorrow the International Cricket Council gives its views on the Condon report but in essence there has been little progress on match-fixing since Hansie Cronje, the South African captain, resigned so dramatically 14 months ago; despite the King inquiry in South Africa, the Condon inquiry and the research by the CBI in India.
		His preliminary report published a month ago contained a great deal of carefully prepared evidence but no names and was hailed in England as yet further proof that the crime was contained within the sub- continent.
	www.hindu.com /2001/06/18/stories/07180288.htm (635 words)

	UFO Skeptic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Such a dichotomy was possible because the study was a project for which the director, Condon, had sole authority; it was not the work of a committee whose members would have to reach some consensus conclusion.
		The impact of the Report was thus largely due to Condon's leveraging his prestigious scientific reputation into an acceptance of his own personal views as representing the apparent outcome of a scientific investigation.
		That is my skeptical view of the Condon Report, but the whole document is now on line, posted by the National Capital Area Skeptics group, with their own take on it, of course, so the best thing to do is to read it for yourself (but don't stop with Condon's "Summary of the Study").
	www.ufoskeptic.org /condon.html (413 words)

	Condon Report Proves Accuracy of Witnesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As much as they like Condon's conclusions about the alleged unreliability and inaccuracy of eyewitnesses, debunkers have never done any in-depth study of the data on witness accuracy that is contained in the Condon Report.
		The reason for this failure by the Condon Committee to statistically analyze its own sighting data on witness accuracy is evidently because the witnesses came out TOO ACCURATE and it did in passing comment grudgingly on that accuracy in at least one case (Case 18).
		Another case that the Condon Committee wrote up but didn't statistically analyze because it showed the witnesses were too accurate, was a daytime fireball meteor in Case 36, though the project didn't really investigate it at all but relied on the reports sent in by a university professor.
	www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/2001/apr/m11-030.shtml (1256 words)

	THE CONDON COMMITTEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The report published at the end of the two year project stated that UFO's were not worth further study and of little significance.
		Some members of the study did not agree with the published findings and it has been suggested that the government insisted on this version of the report.
		The American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics stated that Condon report conclusions were not supported by the data contained within the report, and suggested a bias in the investigative approach.
	www.think-aboutit.com /ufo/condon_committee.htm (228 words)

	The Condon Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dr. Condon's thoroughly negative summation was in stark contrast to the fascinating data buried in the lengthy report, where 30 percent Of the cases were left without c onventional explanation.
		But ignoring UFO reports may do science a disservice, according to a report in last week's Journal of Scientific Exploration, known for examining topics aout ESP and miracles of the saints.
		The authors, a panel of nine astronomers and physicists from reputable universities, said more research into UFO sightings could lead to "an advance in scientific knowledge.,, The group noted that phenomena once dismissed as folk tales, such as the notion that rocks could fall from the sky, were later proved true--meteorites do exist.
	www.colorado.edu /iec/UFO/condon.html (544 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Condon to report to ICC executive on corruption - Monday February 05, 2001 09:27 AM
		Condon to address ICC executive on corruption probe
		Condon, the former head of London's Metropolitan Police who now leads the anti-corruption unit set up by the International Cricket Council, is to give a progress report to the ICC's executive board.
		The other major item on the meeting agenda is the expected announcement of a 10-year plan for international fixtures, with a world test championship to be discussed.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2001/02/05/condon_meeting (399 words)

	Official
		He had clashed with Condon on a variety of issues and the final straw was his link to a highly embarrassing memo.
		It said: "The trick would be, I think, to describe the project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally objective study but, to the scientific community, would present the image of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective but having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer".
		When the Condon report was finally published it ran to around a thousand pages of rambling, ill connected statements and studies, only around half of which actually concerned UFO sightings.
	www.space-2001.net /html/official.html (2366 words)

	The Condon Report and UFOs
		Of one such case, Cordon D. Thayer of the Environmental Science Services Administration, a staff member of Colorado Project, observed: "This must remain as one of the most puzzling radar cases on record and no conclusion is possible at this time.
		A proper study of the UTO phenomenon for the purposes of assaying potential scientific value implies a preliminary stage in which cases of high strangeness, reported by witnesses of respected standing to their communities, are selected for detailed study.
		There is, however, one area in which the reviewer is in accord with Dr. Condon, and that is in his recommendation that science credit not be given in elementary schools for term papers and projects on UFOs.
	www.cohenufo.org /Hynek/hynk_condnrpt.htm (2845 words)

	The Hindu : PCB chief praises Sir Condon's report
		After reading the report, which was released on the internet on Tuesday, the PCB boss appreciated the Anti-Corruption Unit's, of which Condon is the chief, efforts and said, ``it's a well- documented report.
		The PCB boss had delayed his comments on the report but has promised to launch judicial inquiry into Pakistan's 1999 World Cup matches against India and Bangladesh.
		Zia said he was delighted that Pakistan's inquiry into match- fixing and betting had been praised and accepted by the supreme body and its investigators.
	www.hindu.com /2001/05/25/stories/07250285.htm (381 words)

	Richard J. Condon Report to Chancellor Joel I. Klein
		Judith Chin, who is the Regional Superintendent for Region 3 and reports directly to Lam, was among the first individuals whom Lam approached regarding her husband’s employment.
		He reported that Soguero hired Plattes in late August 2003, to fill a teaching position and that thereafter Plattes attended staff development meetings held during the week of August 25, 2003.
		Instead, Vignola reported that at some point, probably during the 3rd or 4th week of August, Lam told him that her husband was “volunteering” as a teacher, with an eye toward obtaining a position.
	www.nycivic.org /MediaArchive/CondonReport040305.html (4550 words)

	Condon Report, Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Special Report of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project "Blue Book", March 1966
		Report on Numerical Experiment on the Possible Existence of an "Anti-Earth," by Dr. R.
		Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects (Robertson Panel), 14-18 January 1953
	ncas.sawco.com /condon/text/contents.htm (244 words)

	Condon Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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