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In reply to the discussion: Regarding the meteor crash in Russia... [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)From Robert J Low, executive director of "Condon Committee," the University of Colorado Study on UFOs commissioned by USAF:
... The trick would be, I think, to describe the project so that, to the public, it would appear a totally objective study but, to the scientific community, would present the image of a group of nonbelievers trying their best to be objective butUh having an almost zero expectation of finding a saucer. One way to do this would be to stress investigation, not of the physical phenomena, but rather of the people who do the observing - the psychology and sociology of persons and groups who report seeing UFO's. If the emphasis were put here, rather than on examination of the old question of the physical reality of the saucer, I think the scientific community would quickly get the message.
SOURCE: http://www.nicap.org/docs/660809lowmemo.htm
That was from back in the day when the government said the dominoes would fall without victory in Vietnam.