Created: 15 November 2006
Updated: 5 January 2017
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“This is a
twelve-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1968. Our thanks
for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (the
original 1968 chronology from UFOE II), William Wise (Project Blue Book
Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive
Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Last, but not least, our thanks to Jean
Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it
possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves.
Earlier last year, on September 18, 1967, Condon, Low
and Saunders had met for the first time in many weeks. As a result of his
reading of the memo, Saunders was deeply concerned about the negative approach
to the UFO problem. Saunders was led to believe that if by chance the Extra
Terrestrial Intelligence (ETI) hypothesis was substantiated, the announcement
would be sent by Condon directly to the Air Force and the President, and never
be allowed to go to the public. This troubled him, because Saunders had been
given a clear understanding that the report would go first to the National
Academy of Sciences, then to the public and Air Force simultaneously. Saunders
felt he could not let the problem drop. Another meeting was agreed to. At this
point, Keyhoe suddenly sent word that NICAP was going to take a strong stand
against the Condon committee and no longer would supply material and reports.
The reason, Keyhoe said, was a new speech made by Condon at the Atomic
Spectroscopy Symposium at Gaithersburg,
Md., on September 13, 1967. A report of the new
Condon speech had already reached Dr. McDonald in a letter from a colleague at
the University of
Arizona, William S.
Bickel, assistant professor of physics on the campus. The rest was all down
hill, but the Condon Report later tried to say they couldn’t get cooperation,
as excerpts inserted in the chronology will demonstrate.
As the Colorado UFO Project prepares to announce the
failure to find anything of substance to UFOs and the need to close the Air
Force Project Blue Book, other studies, such as the secret NSA document below,
and later the RAND document (Nov. 27), give a more accurate report.
Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator
Sept. 17, 1968; Nellis AFB, NV (BBU)
1
a.m. 2 air traffic controllers
including supervisor saw nocturnal light. (Hynek UFO Exp ch. 5, case NL-3)”
Wikipedia article: “Nellis Air Force Base”:
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