Department of the Air Force Committee to Review Project Bluebook, 1966-1967

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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
16 May 1967
SUBJECT:
Some Notes Concerning a Progress Report on
University of Colorado UFO Study
1.
On 5 May 1967, members of the University of Colorado UFO Investigat:i.ng
Committee presented a ttposition paper" on the state of their thinking on
the UFO Study.
This memo is based on verbatim notes taken at that meeting
and augments the formal presentation (Atch 1). A report of the Committee's
progress up to 31 March is also included (Atch 2).
2.
The meeting was held in Dr. Bill Price's office at OSR.
The following
personnel attended:
Dr. Edward V. Condon, Univ of Colorado (uoc), Principal
Investigator
Mr. Robert J. Low, UOC, Project Coordinator
Dr. W. K. Hartman, Univ of Arizona, a member of the UOC
Study Committee
Dr. William Price, OSR
Dr. Tom Ratchford, OSR
Dr. Jesse Orlansky, SAB
Dr. Willis Ware, SAB
Mr. Chester N. Hasert, SAB
Lt Col Harold A. Steiner, SAB
Lt Col Robert Hippler, AFRSTA
Mr. Charles K. Reed, Nat Acad of Sciences
Mr. L. V. Brasher, OSR Procurement
Mr. Dan Taylor, OSR Public Information
3.
The basic problem conf'ronting the UOC Study Connnittee is establishing
a methodology for investigating UFOs.
In the Committee's opinion, previous
investigations have produced few, if any,
studies have rimaril been concerned with investi ati
According to the UOC Con:nnittee, the
se but how to interpret the data obtained from reports that are generated
from sightings.
Thus, additional sightings as currently handled by Project
Blue Book (NOTE:
no criticism of Project Blue Book was inferred) will not
give the Committee a better picture of what UFOs really are.
Something
else is needed.
4.
Admittedly, if better data were available (i.e., those obtained with
spectrometers, magnetometers, etc.) they could undoubtedly give the Com­
mittee a better insight into the UFO problem, but in the 18 months allotted
for the study the probability of the UOC Committee getting s
ificant
better data is small.
The possibility of getting actual, real-time data
with spectrometers, magnetometers, etc., is highly unlikely.
Ergo, the
concept of having specialized, instrumented teams standing ready to move
quickly into an area where UFOs were or are being sighted and obtain
actual, real-time data does not appear likely to produce much.
To
tangible results because these
is not the sighting per
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