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<\/a>For twenty-two years, from 1947 – 1969, the United States Air Force ran a trifecta of UFO research programs<\/a> known as Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. The public is most familiar with the latter of the three, undoubtedly due to the success of a History Channel series by the same name. However, lesser known to non-UFO-aficionados, is why those studies ended. That was due to a near fifteen-hundred page report<\/a> generated by what was known as the Condon Committee, which convened from 1966-1968 at the University of Colorado, to evaluate whether the further study of UFOs was worth it. Spoiler alert: they concluded UFOs were not worth the time. However, something strange has happened to that report over the years. A chunk of it went missing within the main government agency that disseminates it.<\/p>\n The report has always been unclassified, and is now distributed online by the U.S. government primarily through the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC<\/a>), that is, if you know to look there. The Black Vault added what was believed to be the full report in 2018 after a FOIA request yielded the three volume study, however, seventy pages were mysteriously missing from the “complete” copy.<\/p>\n The missing section, arguably, was the most interesting part. According to the Table of Contents for the report, the missing section dealt with UFO sightings by U.S. astronauts.<\/p>\n The Missing Pages<\/strong><\/p>\n An attempt to gain access to the missing pages from DTIC failed, as it appeared the original document as scanned by that agency, did not have the pages within it.<\/p>\n It should be noted — online copies of the Condon report do exist, primarily in text form, and the missing pages are in most of them. So, it is not like the absent sections were not within the public domain already. However, the removal by the government in their copy remains a mystery.<\/p>\n To find online copies of the Condon report outside of U.S. government channels, you just needed to look in some obscure places, as it appears only six full copies in text form exist online (source: Google, see screen shot). Those text versions seem to all stem from a copy created by the “National Capital Area Skeptics<\/a>” more than twenty years ago, after working directly with the University of Colorado to generate it.<\/p>\n Despite the text versions available online, original copies disseminated by DTIC remain incomplete, as of the writing of this article.<\/p>\n The Hunt For The Records<\/strong><\/p>\n The Black Vault began its search for the ORIGINAL pages in December of 2019. The most logical place to look, was the University of Colorado where the study took place. However, e-mails and voicemails were un-returned. Fast forward to June of 2020, and a complete copy with the missing pages was discovered within the archive of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS<\/a>), an agency under the Department of Commerce that started originally after World War II. According to their mission statement, they “provide the support and structure that helps our partners securely store, analyze, sort, and aggregate data in new ways.” They have a large database of technical reports, which for decades remained behind a paywall, but now seems to be open to the public.<\/p>\n Hidden within, is the complete Condon Committee report; a full scan of one of the original report with the missing seventy pages attached. And sure enough, the missing pages prove to be some of the most interesting. Within Chapter 6, three astronaut UFO sightings are referenced as having no explanation.<\/p>\n The complete set of just the missing pages are as follows:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>\u00a0Missing Pages from the Condon Report<\/a> [70 Pages, 3MB]<\/p>\n