Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2011 10:07:39 GMT -6
I put this here because I had previously mentioned it in the post about Officer Schirmer. We don't often talk about things like the Condon Commission because inevitably if they take a turn against the idea of UFO's we scream government cover up. Maybe some here don't know that the Air Force commissioned the University of Colorado (under the direction of Edward U. Condon) to do a study and report findings on UFO's in the late sixties. What I'm posting here is Dr. Thornton Page's review of the Commission Report and the report itself. A lot of the cases are pretty interesting.
Interestingly enough..at the outset Page was reprimanded for his 'humor' toward the subject. His attitude changed when he became more familiar with the findings. The cases they examined were well documented cases and it might be fun to examine some of them ourselves. Part of their conclusion was that the sheer volume of reports that had explanations were a deterant to investigation. In other words..people holler UFO over common things like clouds or rocket con trails or military craft or in one case a child's box kite..and it mucks things up. Not even taking into account budding filmography hoaxers
Beneath Pages take on the report is the report itself.
'In one sense, the Condon Report lives up to its title Scientific Study, because physical principles and available data are applied meticulously to more than 56 selected, well-documented "cases" (UFO sightings), with the result that 33 cases are explained. however, as several other reviewers have noted, this leaves unexplained a larger proportion than the 10% or so which caused all the ruckus and forced the Air Force to fund the Colorado Project in the first place'.
www.cufon.org/cufon/tp_revue.htm
files.ncas.org/condon/text/contents.htm
Interestingly enough..at the outset Page was reprimanded for his 'humor' toward the subject. His attitude changed when he became more familiar with the findings. The cases they examined were well documented cases and it might be fun to examine some of them ourselves. Part of their conclusion was that the sheer volume of reports that had explanations were a deterant to investigation. In other words..people holler UFO over common things like clouds or rocket con trails or military craft or in one case a child's box kite..and it mucks things up. Not even taking into account budding filmography hoaxers
Beneath Pages take on the report is the report itself.
'In one sense, the Condon Report lives up to its title Scientific Study, because physical principles and available data are applied meticulously to more than 56 selected, well-documented "cases" (UFO sightings), with the result that 33 cases are explained. however, as several other reviewers have noted, this leaves unexplained a larger proportion than the 10% or so which caused all the ruckus and forced the Air Force to fund the Colorado Project in the first place'.
www.cufon.org/cufon/tp_revue.htm
files.ncas.org/condon/text/contents.htm