Scientist or researcher
Edward Condon
1968-01-01year known, day not recorded
Physicist who led the government-commissioned Condon Committee; its 1968 report concluded UFOs warranted no further study and led directly to Project Blue Book's 1969 closure.
In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufos", "blue book". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.
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publicly pressed for a congressional inquiry into UFOs in 1966, the same week the Air Force commissioned Condon's University of Colorado studyNo title recorded war-gov-65-hs1-834228961-62-hq-83894-section-10-pdfPDF p. 30 checked against the pageCaveat The source is a press clipping inside an FBI case file, not a government statement, and this record renders it as third-party press text. It reports the two events in sequence and refuses the causal link between them.
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led the committee; Low served as project coordinatorNo title recorded DOW-UAP-D092PDF p. 33 checked against the page
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announced the selection of his committeeCaveat Claim: Harold Brown announced the selection of the Condon committee. The caution says one passage does not name Condon - and the same citation then gives Brown stating the decision himself at printed 6044. The claim is carried.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21
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his criticism of it was ruled out of scope at the 1968 symposium; he stated his views were on record elsewhereCaveat Two faults removed at once. 'Fiercest' is a ranking the charter forbids and no document supports, the same fault stripped from link 1240 earlier today. And the citation itself said the hearing was NOT evidence of the critique. What the hearing DOES prove, on printed 30, is better: Rep. Ryan asked McDonald to evaluate the Colorado project, Roush ruled it out of scope by prior agreement, Miller said the committee had no authority, and McDonald said 'I am on record elsewhere than here in my specific views on that project.' Every word of the new claim is on that page. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.scope: scoped · reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
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its recommendation directly led to this study
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held while the Condon study was under way at Colorado
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wrote to the Army in 1970 to test the atmospheric-vortex explanation from his reportJames Tuck correspondence on the Los Alamos green light sightingsPDF p. 3 checked against the page
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his 1968 report led to Blue Book's closureCondon Report, 1968
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corresponded on nuclear aircraft propulsion
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disputed his committee's conclusions
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Edward Condon → James E. McDonald
McDonald was the fiercest scientific critic of the Condon Report
his criticism of it was ruled out of scope at the 1968 symposium; he stated his views were on record elsewhere
Two faults removed at once. 'Fiercest' is a ranking the charter forbids and no document supports, the same fault stripped from link 1240 earlier today. And the citation itself said the hearing was NOT evidence of the critique. What the hearing DOES prove, on printed 30, is better: Rep. Ryan asked McDonald to evaluate the Colorado project, Roush ruled it out of scope by prior agreement, Miller said the committee had no authority, and McDonald said 'I am on record elsewhere than here in my specific views on that project.' Every word of the new claim is on that page. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.