In 1966, at the request of the United States Air Force, a committee was formed to review the most interesting UFO materials collected as part of the Blue Book Project.
Two years later, the committee, which examined 59 UFO sightings in detail, published its findings as a scientific study of unidentified flying objects, also known as the Condon Report, named after Edward W. Condon, the physicist who led the investigation.
Condon's report was reviewed by a special committee of the National Academy of Sciences. A total of 37 scientists wrote chapters or parts of chapters for a report detailing 59 UFO sightings.
The committee concluded that there was no evidence of anything other than normal occurrence in the reports and that UFOs did not warrant further investigation. This, along with a decrease in targeting activity, led to the dismantling of the Blue Book project in 1969.
Despite the failure to make progress with the expert committees, several scientists and engineers, notably J. Allen Gynek, an astronomer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois who participated in Project Blue Book, concluded that a small fraction of The most reliable UFO reports provide clear indications of the presence of alien visitors. Hynek founded the Center for UFO Research (CUFOS), which continues to research this phenomenon.
Another major study of UFO sightings in the United States was called the Aviation Enhanced Threat Identification Program, a secret project that ran from 2007 to 2012.
When the existence of this project was made public in December 2017, its most interesting aspect was the report that the US government possessed alloys and compounds allegedly obtained from UFOs that were of an unidentifiable nature, but many scientists were still skeptical about this claim.
Aside from American efforts, the only other official and fairly complete records of UFO sightings were kept in Canada, where they were transferred in 1968 from the Canadian Department of National Defense to the Canadian National Research Council.
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Canadian records included about 750 observations. Less complete records have been preserved in the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Australia and Greece. In the United States, the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program and the Mutual UFO Network in Bellevue, Colorado continue to record reported sightings to the public.
In the Soviet Union, UFO sightings were often triggered by the testing of secret military missiles. To hide the true nature of the tests, the government sometimes encouraged public opinion that these missiles might be alien ships, but ultimately decided that the descriptions themselves could provide too much information. UFO sightings in China have also been triggered by military action that is unknown to the public.
Author: MIKHAILOV ALEXEY