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A Previous UFO Report Came From the University of Colorado in 1968

June 24, 2021
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Article by Ally Dever June 9, 2021 (colorado.edu)

• U.S. intelligence agencies are expected to present to Congress an unclassified report detailing what they know about UFOs. According to leaks by unnamed officials, the report will find no evidence of extraterrestrial involvement. But it could be.

• One of the last government-commissioned reports on UFOs was ‘The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects’, or the ‘Condon Report’. Edward Condon, a former professor at the University of Colorado – Boulder, was given $300,000 to produce a thousand-page report. The report resides in the university library’s archives. The collection contains documents, journals, research papers, international newsletters, film reels of suspected “sightings” and books gathered during Condon’s commissioned study. Heather Bowden, head of Rare and Distinctive Collections, has preserved and reviewed the Condon Report collection and discusses it.

• Edward U. Condon (1902–1974), was a professor of physics and astrophysics and a fellow of the Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA). He was a prominent theoretical physicist who made a major impact in the development of scientific fields such as quantum mechanics, nuclear science and electronics. But he was most known for his 1968 report on UFOs.

• Condon reported: “Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to science knowledge.” In other words, the study did not find any conclusive evidence that there have been sightings of UFOs that were crafted by remote galactic or intergalactic civilizations.

• According to a NY Times and CNN leak, the impending 2021 government-commissioned UFO report comes to a similar conclusion – that there is no evidence that extraterrestrials are involved, but does not rule out the possibility that alien life exists, somewhere.

• Bowden says she is most fascinated by the handwritten materials and scraps of notes that accompany the report, because it lends a human element to something that could otherwise be considered clinical and dry. Also, the film reels would be fascinating to watch.

• [Editor’s Note] And this is how academia treats this subject. The deep state Rockefeller Foundation has controlled what is taught in our schools, colleges and universities since the 1940s. After the Air Force spent fifteen years covering up UFOs through Project Blue Book, the Air Force generals wanted to just do away with it altogether. So they had Condon conduct a fake study and publish a fake report saying that there is nothing to the UFO phenomenon. Cased closed. Move on. And that’s where it has stood until this month, when the military and intelligence agencies are to present their updated findings – again – that there is nothing to the UFO phenomenon. And of course, academia is satisfied that that learned professors and scientists have studied the matter and declared it non-existent. Cased closed. Move on.

• These mind-controlled “academics” and “scientists”, not to mention the utterly compromised mainstream media “news reporters”, are nothing more than professional liars making a good living by regurgitating deep state disinformation and propaganda for the elite’s domination agenda. This corruption must and will be revealed. But then what? What do we do with all of these criminals who have been lying to the people for decades? Do they just get a slap on the wrist and go on with their lives? No. They must all be publicly identified and sequestered to a place where they cannot interact with society ever again. I’m thinking the emptied slave labor bases on Mars once the Solar Warden Alliance and Galactic Federation have finished clearing out the bad actors of the Nazi Dark Fleet and Interplanetary Corporate Conglomerate. Or perhaps send them all to a space barge prison. Put them anywhere but on this planet as humanity transforms the Earth into a Golden Age of higher consciousness and spirituality.

Later this month, U.S. intelligence agencies are expected to present to Congress a highly anticipated unclassified report detailing what they know about unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

According to unnamed officials reported to have been briefed on its contents, the task force did not find evidence that the unexplained aerial phenomena (likened to UFOs) that Navy pilots have witnessed in recent years are alien spacecrafts. But the report does not definitively say they aren’t.

One of the last government-commissioned reports on UFOs was conducted right here at CU Boulder and resides in the archives at University Libraries. Edward Condon, a former professor of physics and astrophysics, was given $300,000 to produce a thousand-page report named The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, or the Condon Report, as it became known.

Heather Bowden, head of Rare and Distinctive Collections, has preserved and reviewed the Condon Report and spoke with CU Boulder Today about what it found.

Who was Edward U. Condon?

Edward U. Condon (1902–74), a former professor of physics and astrophysics and fellow of the Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), was a prominent theoretical physicist who made substantial contributions in academia, industry and government. He had a major impact in the development of scientific fields such as quantum mechanics, nuclear science and electronics but was most known for his report on UFOs.

Why was the Condon Report commissioned?

The Condon Report was commissioned by the United States Air Force in the mid-1960s with the aim of producing an unbiased scientific investigation into the possibility that unidentified flying objects may be of extraterrestrial origin. The decision to conduct the study came from a March 1966 report from an ad hoc committee of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board tasked with reviewing this issue.

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What We Get Wrong When We Talk About UFOs

July 7, 2019
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Listen to “E22 7-7-19 What We Get Wrong When We Talk About UFOs” on Spreaker.
by Faye Flam June 25, 2019 (bloomberg.com)

• Navy pilots have reported seeing alien UFOs is the skies, and Congressmen are being briefed on it. These UFO sightings should be investigated in a scientific way, but errors in thinking are undermining the effort. There are two reasons why we should not conclude that these are extraterrestrial craft.

• But the pro-extraterrestrial visitation arguments rest on two serious errors. One is the confusion of observations with interpretations, and the other is a slight twist on an error called ‘god of the gaps’.

• The first error is that Navy pilots cannot know a flying object’s speed or acceleration without knowing whether these were little things seen up close, or bigger things farther away. Former NASA engineer James Oberg says, “The bizarre events reported by Navy pilots are not ‘observations’; they are interpretations of what the raw observations might mean.”

• The second error is that when a scientist cannot explain something, they go to the supernatural explanation or an “act of God”. The same thing is happening with UFOs, with alien visitors being used to fill gaps in our understanding of the latest detection technology, the sky and human vision. Extraterrestrial visitors and gods fall into the same category of unscientific explanation because they haven’t shown themselves to humanity in a coherent enough way for claims about them to be tested.

• The arguments for extraterrestrial UFOs falsely equate the possibility that extraterrestrial life exists with the plausibility that it’s visiting us. Yes, there are other planets out there, and some might harbor life forms. But why should we assume they’d want to come here? Are we really that exciting?

• Many UFOs have been explained scientifically. The Air Force conducted studies starting in 1947, and continuing through the 1960’s, when the matter was turned over to a panel of civilian scientists headed by physicist Edward Condon at the University of Colorado. The committee explained most of the outstanding cases as reflections, equipment glitches, balloons, astronomical phenomena and human-built craft. So what about the unexplained cases?

• Len Finegold, a retired UC physics professor who consulted on a few Condon cases says there are plenty of unexplained phenomena left in physics, “so we’re used to that.” Mysteries of life may one day be solved, but in the meantime, let’s get comfortable with the gaps.

• [Editor’s Note] This is a hard core Deep State response to the UFO phenomenon, which the government has maintained since the 1940’s. They roll out their greatest hits of half-baked, irrational arguments to prove that UFOs and aliens do not exist. First, experienced Navy pilots have no idea what they are looking at. Second, the ignorant public tends to attribute outrageous religious or supernatural explanations to natural but as yet undiscovered phenomenon. Thirdly, the government has thoroughly and scientifically examined the UFO phenomenon and proclaimed that there is nothing to it. Lastly – and this is the best one – why would any extraterrestrial want to come here? It appears that the Deep State has shifted its ‘deny and cover-up’ strategy from all-out ridicule to a reasoned argument that we’re all just a bunch of idiots who should leave the heavy thinking to the ‘experts’.

If you’re reluctant to believe the latest round of media claims that alien spacecraft are lurking around our airspace and surprising Navy pilots, well, you are not alone.

The New York Times leaned toward aliens as the reason Navy pilots have seen unexplained flying objects, and the Washington Post made a similar case in its news coverage followed by a guest editorial: “UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact.” Others followed suit. Congress is getting classified briefings.

But the pro-extraterrestrial visitation arguments rest on two serious errors. One is the confusion of observations with interpretations, and the other is a slight twist on an error called god of the gaps. The UFO sightings should be investigated in a scientific way, but the errors are undermining the effort.

The first error made in most of the news coverage was to claim that Navy pilots observed craft that accelerated, rose upwards or turned faster than was physically possible. But pilots can’t know any object’s speed or acceleration without knowing whether these were little things, seen close up, or bigger things, that were farther away. It’s just one clue that the vocabulary is being blurred.

James Oberg, a former NASA engineer turned space journalist, pointed out: “The bizarre events reported by Navy pilots are not ‘observations’; they are interpretations of what the raw observations might mean.” To start an investigation from a conclusion rather than from data is, he says, “a recipe for confusion and frustration and dead-ended detours.” 1

The other error cropped up many times when I wrote newspaper stories about evolution. Readers would sometimes write in to argue that if scientists couldn’t completely explain some phenomenon – say, the origin of DNA – then it must be an act of God. Theologians sometimes use the term “god of the gaps” to describe the erroneous use of supernatural explanations for natural phenomena that aren’t yet explained. The same thing is happening with UFOs, with alien visitors being used to fill gaps in our understanding of the latest detection technology, the sky and human vision.

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