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Show 2A DESERET NEWS, Thursoay, January 9, 1969 Scientists Lay UFOs To Rest 9 9 9 wejsr, laaniTW- By BOB HORTON WASHINGTON (AP) - "lfurvq Uni- versity of Colorado scientists reported formally today there is no evidence Unidentified Hying Objects are visitors from outer space and suggested dropping further investige-,tion- Mansfield Says "Our general conclusion is nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge, the scien-'fist- s publican occupies the White -aPll(n House, Democrats in Congress, not an outside group of liberals, Retiring Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. OBrien should shape par.y policy. that report said e MM Mansfield visibly when asked in an interview for an opinion on revival of the Democratic Advisory Council which spewed out party policy the during pronouncements GOP Eisenhower years. ."bluntly. The $500,000, two-yea- r study, conducted for an Air Force weary of the flying saucer headache, said fur- ther extensive study of UFOs probably canot be justified at thU point in the Interest of ; i Two photos from report on UFOs: clouds photographed In Brazil, left, and cutout drawing superimposed on a print and recopied, right. saucer-shape- d science. . NO COMMENT ; The ; ! went three-volum- with position along Forces report the Air e long-hel- d that no evidence exists indicating that UFOs pose a haiard to U.S. security. The' service, however, had no comment on ! ; It. . The scientists, headed Colorados Dr. Edward their Condon, acknowledged conclusions are bound to stir pew controversy among flying saucer-believeas well as other dedicated scientists who want to keep an open mind on ! ) . - the matter. Or.e of several flying saucer the National Invesgroups tigations Committee on Aerial scheduled a Phenomena Friday news conference to Scid discuss the entific Study of Unidentified The group Flying Objects. charged last- May the Condon Study lacked impartiality. long-awaite- - PANEL APPROVES But the report won the unanimous , approval" of a Rational Academy of Sciences panel which w& asked by the ; - Air Force to review.it In a "further independent dieck." ' The panel found the study adequate , In scope, its methodology and approach wed chosen and concurred in Its evaluations and recommendations. Among the study's major joints; x . , No direct evidence whatev-go-f a convincing nature now 'Mists fat the claim that any UFOs represent spacecraft visiting earth from another - Sen-- 1 Mansfield said. We (AP) can; afford to with Mike speak Leader ate Majority many Mansfield says that while a Re-s- T0hfeillpih.m?re ,ha WASHINGTON s. 1,485-pag- Demo Policies Up To Solons, could be carried out without the continuance" of the Air Forces Project Blue Book which has investigated UFO reports since 1947. but this is a matter for the Pentagon to decide, cation, seven were classified e as natural or phenomena and 12 provide insufficient data for analysis. man-mad- NONE REAL None proved to be real objects with high strange- Suggestions by some peo- ple that the government ness. pos- Since the Air Forces Project Blue Book began investiin gating flying saucers 1947, there have been 12,097 UFO sightings, 697 of which remain unidentified." The scientists said their main strategy was to set aside many of the old Air Force interviews and press clips of UFOs while focusing on their own interrogations and analyses of UFO incidents arising during the time of their study. Their tnaln tools were the tape recorder and the long distance telephone call. sesses extraterrestrial spacecraft and has their crews in secret captivity are fantastic nonsense. NO COVERUP the governAllegations ment has a tempted an official coverup of the flying saucer matter have no factual basis whatever. Some public school students are being educationally harmed by absorbing unsound and erroneous reading materials on UFOs, and we strongly recommend teachers stop giving them credit for reading saucer books and articles. The scientists charged at one point the National Investigations Committee for Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) made several efforts to influence the course of our study. GLOBAL . . civilisation. 1 ORDINARY OBJECTS ' About 90 per cent of all UFO reports prove to be quite plausibly related to ordinary objects such as planes, street satellites, balloons, considered that UFOs might be manned vehicles from outer space, but naturally no publicity was given to this idea because of the total lack of evidence for it" The council, organized to emphasize a liberal viewpoint in the White House. party affairs, was continually at But its makeup is vastly dif. minds being filled with loggerheads with then Demothe Democratic from ferent B. s Leader Senate d cratic Lyndon cientific, pseudopseu Council and Senate Mi. Johnson and the late House religious or other fantasies. Leader Everett M. Dirk- - . nority Sam Rayburn. The group focused attention Speaker sen said he would like to keep it Mansfield said the center of functioning. almost entirely on the physiwill shift from cal aspects of UFO reports Where the Democratic greup House to Congress White the rather than psychiatric probhad few congressional member when Nixon is inaugurated. and no congressional leaders, lems prompting them, The scientists found many "My feeling is that the Demo- the Republican Policy Coordoften very cratic majorities in the two inating Committee formed after UFO reporters articulate, but not necessarily houses will take the lecd in John F. Kennedy was elected reliable." shaping major party policies," president has many. o-- policy-makin- In their research, the scientists found that people who report UFOs seem in nearly all cares to be normal, individuals . . . Only a very few are obviously quite emotionally disturbed, their The Republicans also have a committee that helped shape policy while Democrats were in g STUDY In detailed, sometimes highly complex fashion, the report covered case studies of 59 UFO reports, recounted the history of UFO sightings, looked at UFO study PHOTO CASES When it became dear that these would fail, NICAP attacked the Colorado project as biased and therefore without merit," tiie report said. The scientists presented 36 cases where UFOs were photographed, or appeared to have been. Nine were said to give evi--. (fence of probable fabrication," seven of possible fabri , aircraft of any one country for example would be undergoing test flights in different countries, the report stated. Similarly," it added, it is most unlikely that military forces of different countries would be testirg similar developments all over the world at the same time In secrecy from each other. The report disclosed the Air Force has from the beginning SiK?, at times with the party policy committees of the two housed Any such proposal now await the selection of his successor. in ' programs in foreign countries and focused on 20 years of past U.S. study of UFO phenomena. UFO reports around the world vary so greatly, the report said, it is impossible to relate them to a single explanation. This means that a general explanation peculiar to any one country has to be ruled out, since it is utterly improbable that the secret military -- ; shea clinic specials on wmIc only . .lights, beacons, demos or other natural phenomena. Defense needs probably ; men's rubber heels SALT LAKI CITY, UTAH TP5 sag. 1.75 DESERET NEWS ' SAVE todies heel caps of rubber, nylon or leather a. emt Savtk oftkw Mvarttiln an CiroMMiM 141 S. Male SL Salt late City, U'ak Mil fitaWlihad Juna 15, 1U0. Publljhad each avan.na. 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