1969.1129 Jennison on Ball Lightning

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On 29 November 1969, a letter waspublished in the journal Nature entitled “Ball Lightning”, in which Professor R C Jennison (sometimes mispelt as Jenninson) of the Electronics Laboratories at the University of Kent reported seeing a glowing sphere float down the aisle of an Eastern Airlines Jet flight from New York to Washington on 19th March 1963

 

 

 

1969.1217 Project Bluebook terminated

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On 17 December 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force, Robert C Seamans Jr, announced the termination of Project Blue Book.

 

 

 

1969.1226 AAAS UFO Symposium

 

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The American Association for the Advancement of Science (“AAAS”) held a 2 day UFO Symposium in Boston, Massachusetts on 26th and 27th December 1969. Various participants (including Dr J Allen Hynek, James E McDonald and Lester Grinspoon) contributed their papers to a book edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page (“UFO’s : A Scientific Debate” (1972)).

 

 

 

1969.1230 Letter from AAAS attendees

 

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Letter from AAAS attendees
On 30 December 1969, a letter sent to Mr Robert Seamans by Thornton Page on behalf of various attendees of the AAAS symposium urging that the Blue Book and Condon files be lodged with a research institute to allow further study.

 

 

 

1970.0000 Strentz thesis on Press Coverage

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Dissertation: Strentz, Dr. Herbert Joseph “A Survey of Press Coverage of Unidentified Flying Objects, 1947-1966”, PhD thesis, Journalism, Northwestern University (1970), 355 pages