“Air Force Hiring UFO Scientists”, 11 May 1966
(The Washington Observer,
Pennsylvania
The decision to award the
contracts was based on a
recommendation by the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory
Board, according to the Defense Department:
recommendation by the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory
Board, according to the Defense Department:
Wikipedia article: “Condon
Committee”:
Quote from the Wikipedia
article:
“At a Congressional UFO hearing
on April 5, 1966, Air Force Secretary Harold Brown defended the Air Force’s UFO
studies and repeated the O'Brien Committee’s call for more studies.
Astrophysicist Peter A.
Sturrock wrote that ‘critical reviews...came from scientists who had actually
carried out research in the UFO area, while the laudatory reviews came from
scientists who had not carried out such research.’ ”
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