Word: ufo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saucer skeptics have a number of theories. For one thing, an intensive Air Force-sponsored study of UFO "sightings," conducted under the supervision of University of Colorado Physicist Edward U. Condon, was issued...
...Allen Hynek, chairman of Northwestern University's astronomy department and the scientific community's most outspoken investigator of UFOs, also complains of a news blackout. To prevent the loss of what he considers "material of potential scientific value," Hynek has established an informal Blue Book project of his own at Northwestern. He is particularly anxious to get reports from trained scientific observers whose anonymity he promises to preserve (to spare them ridicule from their colleagues). Hynek insists that UFO sightings are often made by reputable observers, including scientists and technicians. Says he: "It is a gross but popular...
...evidence of the unfitness of a military agency to serve as UFO control, Menzel mentioned the Godman sighting, in which an Air Force pilot, Robert Mantell, was sent up in an Air Force plane to track an unidentified flying object which had been sighted near Godman Air Force Base in Kentucky...
Afterwards, researchers discovered that the UFO had been a Navy weather balloon which had not been announced to the Air Force tracking station...
Menzel said that the recent drop in UFO sightings has come because news media have stopped giving them big play. "Everyone in the UFO racket-myself included-realizes that this is a bad time for UFO's," he said...