1 May 1968
(Nashua Telegraph, New Hampshire)
Quote from the article:
“A final report of the scientists’ findings will be
given to the National Academy of Sciences late in September. Condon, a
physicist, said he would not discuss any conclusions that the researches might
have reached.
Condon’s statement came amid controversy between him
and Look Magazine over an article that calls the project the ‘Flying Saucer
Fiasco.’
The university undertook a $500,000 study of
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s) late in 1966 at the request of the Air
Force, whose critics accused it of failing for two decades to make a
comprehensive, scientific investigation of saucer reports from the public.
On the House floor Tuesday, Rep. J. Edward Roush,
D-Ind., using phrases from the Look article, said Congress should take over the
investigation from the Air Force. He said grave doubts had arisen ‘as to the
scientific profundity and objectivity of the Colorado project.’
Elsewhere, the non-governmental National
Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) held a news conference
here to announce that it had ‘broken with’ the Colorado project and to ‘reveal
the firing of top project scientists and other incidents leading to the project’s
failure.’
NICAP headquarters here has expressed strong
scepticism about the project for months.
The Look article, in the May 14 issue, indicates that
the two men who were dismissed and others on the staff felt that Condon and
others directing the project took a negative attitude toward the possibility
that flying saucers existed and were attempting to end up with a report
containg such a ‘negative’ conclusion.”
Wikipedia article: “Condon Committee”:
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