Because Edward Condon and Robert Low embraced such a biased,
skeptical attitude from the very start, the Condon Committee
was plagued with a variety of problems from its inception.
The tension and division within the committee reached such a
height, that eventually, NICAP refused to provide additional
UFO case documents, and ultimately, NICAP pulled out of the
project; a number of committee members resigned and had to
be replaced; and accusations and legal challenges flared.

As a result of the Condon Committee's biased conclusions that
all UFO sightings have conventional explanations, and as such
don't require further study, Project Blue Book was officially
shut down in December of 1969. The entire affair, including
the Trick Memo, was eventually exposed in the American media,
such as in a May 14, 1968 "LOOK" Magazine article, entitled
"Flying Saucer Fiasco".

To this day, there are a number of critics, including some
former members of the Condon Committee, who have insisted
that the Condon Report was not only heavily biased and quite
unscientific, but that it was in fact carefully crafted so
as to give the U.S. Air Force exactly what it wanted; that
is, an acceptable excuse for terminating Project Blue Book.
In his critique entitled "An Analysis of the Condon Report
on the Colorado UFO Project", Astrophysicist Peter A.
Sturrock states in part:

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"The great weight attached to this report by scientists, by
the public and perhaps by officers of the federal government,
is based on the presumption that the study was, in fact,
scientific. This has been disputed by a number of individuals
. . . of the fifteen top staff members, at least twelve . . .
definitely disagreed with [Condon]."

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Please go to part twelve for the continuation of this series.


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NATURE OF THE ALIEN : ET's, DEMONS OR GOV'T PLOT? : PT 12

Last Updated : June 22, 2007


Condon Report Critics, Project Blue Book, J. Allen Hynek And
James E. McDonald Criticize The Condon Report, Albert M. Chop
General Nathan Twining And Project Sign, Project Grudge, 1952
Washington D.C. UFO Waves, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, John Samford,
Eyewitness Testimonies Of July 1952 UFO Event, Capt. Ruppelt,
Testimonies From Other Pilots/Air Traffic Controllers, U.F.O.
Acronym Is Born, Robertson Panel Sham, US Air Force Campaign
To Debunk & Ridicule UFO Believers, Joint Army-Navy-Air Force
Regulation 146, Project Blue Book Demise & Final Conclusions,
Battle Of Los Angeles, Kenneth Arnold, Washington DC, Roswell



This diverse body of critics has included physicist James E.
McDonald, noted astronomers J. Allen Hynek and Frank Drake,
Major Donald E. Keyhoe, electrical engineer Norman Levine,
and many other high-profile, credible individuals. But the
overall result is that the conclusions of the Condon Report
have allowed the U.S. military to go underground with their
research concerning the alien-UFO phenomenon, while at the
same time, the belief in the existence of alien-guided UFO's
has been viewed with even more derision and skepticism. But,
not everyone was fooled by the U.S. Government's deception.
In a 1967 article, which we will discuss more at length in a
moment, even Major Keyhoe himself had this to say regarding
Project Blue Book, and the government's claim that it was no
longer interested in the UFO phenomenon:

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"The fact is, the Air Force seems seriously concerned about
UFO's and is still investigating them intensively. The Air
Intelligence group that is charged with checking up on UFO
reports (its code name is Project Blue Book) is still in
existence and still active, despite protestations that the
book is closed."

----- End Quote -----

After the Condon Committee released its findings concerning
the UFO phenomenon, Dr. J. Allen Hynek lamented the negative
effect that the Condon Report would have on serious research
regarding said phenomenon, and stated:

----- Begin Quote -----

"[The Condon Report was] surely the kiss of death to any
further investigation in the name of the quest for
knowledge."

----- End Quote -----

In his 1972 book "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry",
Hynek was also quite scathing of the Condon Report. Some of
his remarks included:

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"The Condon Report settled nothing . . . singularly slanted
. . . avoided mentioning that there was embedded within the
bowels of the report a remaining mystery; that the committee
had been unable to furnish adequate explanations for more
than a quarter of the cases examined."

----- End Quote -----

Physicist James E. McDonald also expressed his objections to
the Condon Report's conclusions. In a 1969 lecture he gave
entitled "Science In Default", Mr. McDonald had this to say:

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"The Condon Report, released in January, 1968, after about
two years of Air Force-supported study is, in my opinion,
quite inadequate. The sheer bulk of the Report, and the
inclusion of much that can only be viewed as 'scientific
padding', cannot conceal from anyone who studies it closely
the salient point that it represents an examination of only
a tiny fraction of the most puzzling UFO reports of the past
two decades, and that its level of scientific argumentation
is wholly unsatisfactory. Furthermore, of the roughly 90
cases that it specifically confronts, over 30 are conceded
to be unexplained. With so large a fraction of unexplained
cases (out of a sample that is by no means limited only to
the truly puzzling cases, but includes an objectionably
large number of obviously trivial cases), it is far from
clear how Dr. Condon felt justified in concluding that the
study indicated 'that further extensive study of UFOs
probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science
will be advanced thereby."

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If you would like to learn more about the history, work and
failures of the Condon Committee, I encourage you to visit
the Wikipedia web site. You will find a lot more detailed
information there, as well as on other web sites. I am just
including some of the key facts concerning the Condon Report
in this series, for the sake of brevity.

Major Keyhoe was not the only person associated with Project
Blue Book, who dared to speak the truth. Albert M. Chop was
at one time the U.S. Air Force's spokesman for Project Blue
Book. He was also the deputy public relations director for
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA.
On one occasion, Mr. Chop stated:

----- Begin Quote -----

"I've been convinced for a long time that the flying saucers
are real and interplanetary. In other words, we are being
watched by beings from outer space."

----- End Quote -----

Project Blue Book was not the American Government's first
attempt to find a plausible explanation for the UFO's which
flew over American skies, as well as in the skies of other
countries around the world. Following the widely-known UFO
waves of 1947, in particular the Kenneth Arnold sightings in
Washington State, and the Corona-Roswell incident in July of
that same year, Air Force General, Nathan Twining, who again,
we will discuss more at length in just a moment, ordered that
a UFO study be initiated. This study was assigned the name of
"Project Sign", and was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, located outside of Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.

While years later, the Condon Report would claim that all UFO
sightings had plausible explanations, Project Sign was really
inconclusive. It should be noted, however, that according to
Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, who about four years later would
become the first director of Project Blue Book, Project Sign
did in fact make some solid determinations. First of all, it
arrived at the conclusion that "flying saucers" were actual
spacecraft. Second, UFO technology was neither American, nor
Russian, in nature. Third, UFO's were probably not of this
world. They were of extraterrestrial origin.



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