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We expect to add additional links from the Internet and sources from the published literature in the near future.
Unfortunately, the following links do not do justice to Dr. Condon's long scientific career, his work on various important government projects, other substantial accomplishments, and his role in the early Cold War American "anti-Red furor." His valuable work during World War II and after is currently represented on the web only by the relatively few links listed below.
Edward U. Condon: Biography (Washington University Library)
Edward U. Condon: Biography (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Morse, Philip M[cCord] (1976). Edward Uhler Condon. Biographical Memoirs
(National Academy of Sciences), 48, 124-151
Edward U. Condon: Curriculum Vitae (Circa 1966)
Franck-Condon principle. Scientific discovery named after James Franck (1882 - 1964) and Edward Uhler Condon (1902 - 1974).
"Quantum Tunneling". An explanation of the phenomenon of
tunneling arrived at independently by George Gamow and by Ronald W.
Gurney and Edward Condon in 1928.
History & Perspectives: "Setting the Standard: NIST/NBS at 100 Years." NBS/NIST Centenary Celebration, Gaithersburg, MD, March 7, 2001. Presentation by Lewis M. Branscomb, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, and Former NBS Director.
Edward Condon's role in the history of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards).
Included in:
Proceedings of the NIST Centennial Standards Symposium. "Standards in the Global Economy: Past, Present, and Future." National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 974, 164 pages: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002: 111-119.
PDF version with accompanying slides:
PDF version:
NITS Fact Sheet: Directors of the National Bureau of Standards and
the National Institute for Standards and Technology
"Conversation with Dr. E. U. Condon, Director, National Bureau of
Standards, and Messrs. Hugh Odishaw and N. E. Golovin, Assistants to
the Director" - Memoranda of William T. Golden: AAAS History and
Archives, October 31, 1950.
"Atomichron: The Atomic Clock from Concept to Commercial Product."Invited Paper, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., 1968 by Paul Forman (Brief mention of Condon's role).
"The Archaeologist of HAO: Tom Bogdan Digs Into the
Early Days." University Corporation for Atmospheric Research,
Staff Notes Monthly: October 2000. (Condon's connection with the
High Altitude Observatory).
"New Weapons Laboratory Gives Birth to the 'Gadget'." Los Alamos
National Lab website/History. (A brief mention of part of
Condon's role at Los Alamos during the Second World War).
"Sixty Years of Quantum Physics," Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri By Edward U. Condon (Read before the Philosophical Society of Washington, December 2, 1960).
"UFOs, I Have Loved and Lost" - (Unfortunately no current web presence)
"Edward Condon and the Cold War Politics of Loyalty." Physics Today
Online, December 2001. (Early in the cold war, redbaiting
Congressmen relentlessly hounded a noted scientist. The lessons
of the case remain no less relevant today).
By Jessica Wang
"The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s."
Transcript Number 1 (PMC1),
The Trustees of Princeton University: 1985.
Interview of John Bardeen at the University of Illinois on 29 May, 1984. The interviewer is William Aspray. (Some recollections of Condon included.)
Papers at the American Philosophical Society
Treasures at the American Philosophical Society (Condon's
photographs of the nuclear detonation on 25 July 1946 at Bikini.)
Tulien, Thomas, ed. "The Colorado Project Collection/E. U. Condon
Papers."
Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop
(November 1999): p.200.
The University of Colorado Proposal to the United States Air Force for the Scientific Study Of Unidentified Flying Objects: presented to USAF October 1966. (These are preliminary documents pertaining to the contractual agreement with the Air Force, including letters of authorization, original and supplementary budgetary allocations, and a detailed CV of Dr. Edward Condon).
Investigative Proposals and Techniques: Early Warning Network
Standard Operating Procedures
Memorandum to: UFO Early Warning Coordinators June 20, 1967
From: Dr. Saunders
Subject: Initial guidelines for telephone reporting
Memorandum to: UFO Early Warning Coordinators
From: N.E. Levine (CU - 202 Woodbury Hall) December 13, 1967
Subject: Guidelines for telephone reporting
"CU on E-M Effects & Instrumentation Plans."
Notes taken by Richard Hall (NICAP) at a meeting held at
University of Colorado.
AIR FORCE REGULATION 80-17 (AFR 80-17, 19 September 1966) Air Force
Regulation in force during the University of Colorado Study.
The University of Colorado Final Report of the Scientific Study of
Unidentified Flying Objects
"Review of the University of Colorado Report on Unidentified Flying Objects By a Panel of the National Academy of Sciences" (Clemence Report), January 8, 1969; National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA. 22161
Letters to the Editor: "Odishaw and the Condon Report."
The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII, No. 1 (Fall 1987).
By J. Richard Greenwell
"An Analysis of the Condon Report on the Colorado UFO Project."
Center for Space Science and Astrophysics, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA 94305-4025. By Peter A. Sturrock
[The reference for this article is: Sturrock, Peter A. (1987). "An Analysis of the Condon Report on the Colorado UFO Project", J. Scientific Exploration, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 75.]
"The USAF-Sponsored Colorado Project for the Scientific Study of UFOs"
- 1995 MUFON Symposium Proceedings, Seguin, TX
By Michael D. Swords, Ph.D.
"UFOs, Social Intelligence, and the Condon Committee."
Falls Church, VA. (April 20, 2000).
Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Science and Technology Studies. By Diana Palmer Hoyt.
[SHG Editorial Note: This paper suffers from a number of factual errors, for example: B-52 [bombers] should read F-94 [fighters], the Army Air Forces (AAF) ceased to exist and became the US Air Force (USAF) in September 1947, however Hoyt many times uses AAF and USAF interchangeably and incorrectly, Dr. Roy Craig was not fired from the Colorado Study, etc.]
As PDF:
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects: Final Report of Research
Conducted by the University of Colorado for the Air Force Office of
Scientific Research under the Direction of Edward U. Condon.
pp. 965+xxiv, Bantam Books, 1969. Price: $1.95, paperback.
A detailed collection of documents and transcripts covering
the entire primary evidence base for the RAF Lakenheath/Bentwaters
Incidents of August 13-14, 1956. - (University of Colorado Case #2)
This chapter outlines the background and activities of those
preparing for and who participated in "The Condon Study."
Craig, Roy. UFOs: An Insider's View of the Official Quest
for Evidence, Denton: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Press Release
These programs are in Real Audio Format.
Saunders, David & R. Roger Harkins. "UFOs? Yes!: Where The
Condon Committee Went Wrong: The Inside Story
By An Ex-Member of the Official Study Group." Cleveland,
Ohio: The World Publishing Company, February, 1969. - (No web presence)
"UFOs and the Evidence"
(Frederick J. Hooven was a consultant to the Ford Motor Company and
adjunct professor of engineering at Dartmouth College).
– House Resolution 946
submitted by Congressman Wyman on October 17, 1967, to authorize
the the Committee on Science and Astronautics
to conduct "a full and complete investigation and study of unidentified
flying objects."
– Congressman L. C. Wyman's
press release from the Peterbourgh, New Hampshire Transcript,
November 23, 1967, reporting a positive response to his
entering of House Resolution 946 to authorize the Committee
on Science and Astronautics to investigate UFO's.
– Indiana Congressman J.
Edward Roush's, letter to Dr. James E. McDonald expressing
support for a Symposium on unidentified flying objects to be held
by the Science and Astronautics Committee of the U. S. House of
Representatives.
– Press Release
from July 12, 1968, announcing the Science and Astronautics
Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives would conduct a one-day
Symposium on unidentified flying objects on Monday, July 29, 1968,
to be chaired by Congressman J. Edward Roush.
Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects: Hearings Before The
Committee On Science and Astronautics, U. S. House of Representatives,
Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, July 29, 1968.
"House Committee on Science and Astronautics: Criticism of
the Air Force Not Allowed" - Extract from Aliens in Space: The
Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects (1973) by Major Donald E.
Keyhoe, Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena (pp. 181-185).
Details the background, participants and outcome of the
Symposium held by the Science and Astronautics Committee of the U. S.
House of Representatives on unidentified flying objects on July 29,
1968.
"Statement of Dr. James E. McDonald, Senior Physicist, Institute of
Atmospheric Physics, and Professor, Department of Meteorology,
The University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz." to the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics UFO Symposium.
Paper presented by Dr. James E. McDonald of
The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, to the
14th Radar Meteorology Conference,
American Meteorological Society,
November 17-20, 1970.
McCarthy, Paul E., "Politicking and Paradigm Shifting: The James E.
McDonald and the UFO Case Study." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1975.
"Flying Saucer Fiasco"
Look Magazine, May, 14, 1968
By John G. Fuller
"UFO Inquiry Is Attacked as Nonscientific"
Washington Evening Star - May 1, 1968
By John Lannan
"Colorado U. Ends Saucers Inquiry"
Conclusions Not Disclosed—New Controversy Stirred
New York Times - Wednesday, May 1, 1968
By Evert Clark
"The Condon Report and UFOs"
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, April 1969, p. 39-42.
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, a report by
Dr. Edward U. Condon, Director of the University of Colorado
Project. Bantam Books, New York, in association with the New
York Times. 965 pages, including index. $1.95 paper.
Reviewed by Dr. J. Allen Hynek
"The UFO Report: Condon Study Falls Short"
Scientific Research, (April 14, 1969); p. 41.
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects conducted by the
University of Colorado, edited by Daniel S. Gillmor (Bantam Books, New
York, 1969, $1.95 paperback, 965 pp)
Reviewed by Robert M. L. Baker Jr.
"Dr. Thornton Page's Review of The "Condon Report."
American Journal of Physics, Vol. 37, No. 10,
(October 1969): 1071-1072.
Reviewed by Thornton Page.
The Lakenheath Collaboration
"NICAP Disputes Condon Report"
The U.F.O. Investigator, Vol. IV, No. 9, SPECIAL (January 1969)
"The UFO Phenomenon: Laugh, Laugh, Study, Study"
Technology Review, (July 1981): pp. 50-58.
by J. Allen Hynek
"The Condon UFO Study: A Trick or a Conspiracy?"
The Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. X, No. 4 (Summer 1986)
by Philip J. Klass.
"Editorial: 'Doubts About Condon'."
Merseyside UFO Bulletin,
Volume 1, Number 1, (January - February 1968).
McCarthy, Paul E., "Politicking and Paradigm Shifting: The James E.
McDonald and the UFO Case Study." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1975: pp. 131-170e
University of Colorado UFO Project: Project Scientists
Dr. William Hartman Home Page
Dr. Roy Craig
Review
ParaNet Continuum Radio Program Archives, Page 3, Program 144
(Jan. 12, 1997). In-studio guest Roy Craig on his book,
UFOs: An Insider's View of the Official Quest for Evidence.
Craig, Roy, 1999. Interviewed by Thomas Tulien and Jan Aldrich,
October (Sign Oral History Project) - (Currently no web presence)
Dr. David Saunders
Frederick J. Hooven
By Frederick J. Hooven
Saturday Review, March 29, 1969
Tribus, Myron (1989). Frederick Johnson Hooven. Memorial Tributes
National Academy of Engineering), 3, 200-205
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science
and Astronautics UFO SymposiumSymposium Documents
House Committee UFO Symposium - Commentary and Critiques
McCarthy, Paul E., "Politicking and Paradigm Shifting: The James E.
McDonald and the UFO Case Study." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of
Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1975: (pp. 176-191)
Dr. James E. McDonald
Tulien, Thomas, ed. "The James McDonald Collection."
Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop
(November 1999): p. 200.
"Meteorological Factors in Unidentified Radar Returns"
"Dr. McDonald Less Alone"
UFOs Get Official 'Recognition'
Tucson, Arizona Daily Citizen - January 3, 1969
By Paul Harvey
"Erase Ridicule"
McDonald Asks U.N. To Begin Study of UFOs
Tucson, Arizona, Daily Citizen - June 15, 1969
By John Riddick
[Further material to be published]
Dr. Paul McCarthy
McCarthy, Paul, 2001. Interviewed by Thomas Tulien, March 5 (Sign Oral
History Project). - (Currently no web presence)
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