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REVIEW 
OF THE 
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 
BY A 
PANEL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
Copyright, National Aeademy of Sciences, ,969. 
This book, or any parts 
thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without written permission 
from the publisher except that reproduction in whole, or in part, is 
permitted for any use of the United States Government. 
Attachment 2, pg 4 

Review 
of the 
University of Colorado Report on Unidentified Flying Objects 
by a 
Panel of the National Academy of Sciences 
The Panel was appointed in the latter }:l!rt of October and early 
November 1968. 
The charge to the Panel was "to provide an independent 
assessment of the soope, methodology, and findings of the (University 
of Colorado) study as reflected in the (University's) Report." 
While 
the Panel largely restricted its review to this charge, it was thought 
both appropriate and necessary that the Panel become familiar with various 
scientific points of view as presented in ot…

The Panel began its review immediately after the Report became 
available on November 15, 1968, by an initial reading of the Report 
by each member of the Panel during a two-week period. 
The Panel convened 
on December 2 for a discussion of members' initial assessments, for 
consideration of the Panel's charge (scope, methodology, and findings 
in the Report), and for delineatioh of further steps in its review. 
The latter included the study of other documents presenting views and 
findings of technically trained persons (e.g., the documents cited above), 
further examination of the Report's …

or man-made ;:ilenomena, twelve provided insufficient data for analysis, 
and seven were considered to be possible fabrications; none proved to 
be "real objects with high strangeness.") 
Technically trained personnel were utilized by the University. 
The University group included a sub-group on field investigations of 
UFO reports; their narration and interpretations of cases are reasonable 
and adequate. 
Leading groups were engaged under contract for specialized 
work -- e.g., Stanford Research Institute on radar anomalies and a subsidiary 
of the Raytheon Corporation for photogrammetric an…

2. 
On defense. 
(a) Is there evidence that UFO sightings may represent 
a defense hazard? 
No such evidence came to light in the study. 
This, 
however, was not an objective of the study and was properly construed 
as a Department_of Defense matter. 
(b) 
The Report states: 
"The history 
or the past 21 years has repeatedly led Air Force officers to the conclusion 
that none of the things seen, or thought to have been seen, which pass 
by the name or UFO reports, constituted any hazard or threat to national 
security." 
We concur with the position described in (a). 
As to (b), we found 
no ev…

We concur with these evaluations and -recommendations. 
IV. PANEL CONCLUSION 
The range or topics in the Report is extensive and its various 
chapters, dealing with many aspects or the subject, should prove of 
value to scholars in many fields. Its analyses and findings are pertinent 
and useful in any fUture assessment of activity in this field. 
We 
concur in the recommendation suggesting that no high priority in UFO 
investigations is warranted by data or the past two decades. 
We are unanimous in the opinion that this has been a very credi-
table effort to apply objectively the relevant te…

MEMBERS OF THE REVIEW PANEL 
Gerald M. Clemence, Chairman 
Yale University 
H.R. Crane 
University of Michigan 
David M. Dennison 
University of Michigan 
Wallace 0. Fenn 
University of Rochester 
H. Keffer Haneline 
The Rockefeller University 
E.R. Hilgard 
Stanford University 
Hark ltac 
The Rockefeller University 
Francis W. Reichelderfer 
Washington, D.C. 
William W. Rubey 
University of California 
at Los Angeles 
C.D. Shane 
Santa Cruz, California 
Oswald G. Villard, Jr. 
Stanford University 
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