was found in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution by Dr. Michael Swords.
17 congressional hearings on the subject of UFOs Congressman Gerald R. Ford, letter to L. Mendel Rivers, Chairman, Science and Astronautics Committee of the Committee on Armed Services, March 28, 1966; David Michael Jacobs, The UFO Controversy in America (Indiana University Press, 1975), p. 204.
18 “an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer” Robert J. Low, memo to E. James Archer and Thurston E. Manning, “Some Thoughts on the UFO Project,” August 9, 1966, contained in David R. Saunders and R. Roger Harkins, UFOs? Yes! Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong (Signet Books/New American Library, 1968), pp. 242–44.
19 “reach a conclusion for another year” John Fuller, “Flying Saucer Fiasco,” Look, May 14, 1968.
20 what I could call “irrefutable proof” Hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,” July 29, 1968 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 1968), p. 32.
21 cooperation be sought through the United Nations Ibid., p. 15.
22 “within the sight of two witnesses” Edward U. Condon, project director, and Daniel S. Gillmor, editor, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (Bantam, 1969), p. 407.
23 it concluded seven weeks later “Review of the University of Colorado Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by a Panel of the National Academy of Sciences,” 1969.
24 “got involved in such foolishness” “Air Force Closes Study of UFO’s,” New York Times, December 18, 1969.
25 “should arouse sufficient curiosity to continue its study” J. P. Kuettner et al., “UFO: An Appraisal of the Problem, a Statement by the UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA,” Astronautics and Aeronautics, 8, no. 11.
2 now called GEIPAN GEIPAN stands for Groupe d’Etude et d’Information sur les Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies (Group for the Study of and Information on Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena).
