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9 “to review and appraise the available evidence” “Unidentified Flying Objects,” December 4, 1952, IAC-M-90.
10 “the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired” F. C. Durant, “Report of Meetings of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects,” convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CA, January 14–18, 1953.
11 “It made the subject of UFOs scientifically unrespectable” Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 23.
12 “to decide the nature of the UFO phenomenon” J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience (Marlowe & Company, 1998; originally published 1972), p. 169.
13 “any basis in fact” Ibid., p. 186.
14 “as poor as they were” Ibid., p. 183.
15 hosted by the trusted Walter Cronkite This letter, dated September 10, 1966, was found in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution by Dr. Michael Swords.
16 “science is more served by fact” “UFO: Friend, Foe or Fantasy?” hosted by Walter Cronkite, CBS special, 1966, http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=2935380n.
17 congressional hearings on the subject of UFOs Congressman Gerald R. Ford, letter to L. Mendel Rivers, Chairman, Science and Astronautics Committee of the Committee on Armed Services, March 28, 1966; David Michael Jacobs, The UFO Controversy in America (Indiana University Press, 1975), p. 204.
18 “an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer” Robert J. Low, memo to E. James Archer and Thurston E. Manning, “Some Thoughts on the UFO Project,” August 9, 1966, contained in David R. Saunders and R. Roger Harkins, UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong (Signet Books/New American Library, 1968), pp. 242–44.
19 “reach a conclusion for another year” John Fuller, “Flying Saucer Fiasco,” Look, May 14, 1968.
20 what I could call “irrefutable proof” Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,” July 29, 1968 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 1968), p. 32.
21 cooperation be sought through the United Nations Ibid., p. 15.
22 “within the sight of two witnesses” Edward U. Condon, project director, and Daniel S. Gillmor, editor, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Bantam, 1969), p. 407.
23 it concluded seven weeks later “Review of the University of Colorado Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by a Panel of the National Academy of Sciences,” 1969.
24 “got involved in such foolishness” “Air Force Closes Study of UFO’s,” New York Times, December 18, 1969.
25 “should arouse sufficient curiosity to continue its study” J. P. Kuettner et al., “UFO: An Appraisal of the Problem, a Statement by the UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA,” Astronautics and Aeronautics, 8, no. 11.
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1 would still be dealt with accordingly BBC News, “UFO Investigations Unit Closed by Ministry of Defence,” December 4, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8395473.stm.
2 now called GEIPAN GEIPAN stands for Groupe d’Étude et d’Information sur les Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non-Identifiés (Group for the Study of and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena).
3 known as CNES CNES stands for the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (National Center of Space Studies).
4 and the Condon report in 1968 Associated Press, “French Space Agency Puts UFO Files Online,” March 23, 2007, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,260590,00.html.
5 traditionally employed by that noted paper Sarah Lyall, “British U.F.O. Shocker! Government Officials Were Telling the Truth,” New York Times, May 26, 2008.
6 by former UK Ministry of Defence official Nick Pope Nick Pope, “Unidentified Flying Threats,” New York Times, July 29, 2008.
7 Phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés The book was published by Le Cherche Midi, 2007.
8 “to identify what we don’t know” http://www.eeb.org/publication/1999/
eeb_position_on_the_precautionar.html. See also http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/health_consumer/library/pub/pub07_en.pdf].
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