Project Condign

Project Condign –

Project Condign was a secret unidentified flying object (UFO) study undertaken by the British Government’s Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) between 1997 and … Wikipedia

 

The documents, many marked “Secret UK Eyes A”, lay out the rationale for the three-year Project Condign report which analysed more than 10,000 …

At the end of the Blue Book project, there were still 701 reports that were never explained among the thousands of cases that had reached the US Air Force.

A similar analysis was ordered by the British defence who on a regular basis from 1967 to 2000 sent all UFO reports to a department called DI55 within the Defence Intelligence Service, whose primary task was to work with space weapons. But this investigation, which came under the codename ‘Condign’, had another purpose – to ensure that the British defence force would no longer have to worry about dealing with UFO reports from the public.

In the previously classified report the anonymous investigator, who gained access to the whole British defence UFO files, notes that there is no evidence that unidentified flying objects observed in British airspace “are incursions by air objects of any intelligent (extra-terrestrial or foreign) origin, or that they represent any hostile intent”. All documents are saved as copies at AFU.

The report’s final recommendation was also the one that the British defence had hoped for: “It should no longer be a requirement for DI55 to monitor UAP reports as they do not demonstrably provide information useful for Defence Intelligence.”

UAP is here to be understood as ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’, a term that is often used by the military of several countrys, because the abbreviation ’UFO’ has increasingly come to be confused with visitors from other planets.

But the UFO enigma itself was not solved by the mysterious person behind the Condign report. At the beginning of his 465-page report, he quotes former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who on July 28, 1952 wrote a famous minute to the secretary of state for air, Lord Cherwell:

“What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.”

58 years later the anonymous man behind the Condign report answers Churchill’s question in his summary: “The topic of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) has remained an enigma since well before the Prime Minister’s remarks above. Since earliest recorded history probably only two key factors have changed – there are now more UAP reported, and there are also more objects in the sky which can be misreported.”

  • Super Natural by Kripal / Strieber (Notes) – page 234- condign and BOLs

 

  • anomalistanitalogoJuly 20, 2018

Another Steaming Load of Crap Herald Tribune

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As may be inferred from its title, Billy Cox is not pleased with the UK’s handling of the UFO subject. And rightfully so. Billy begins with what British Ministry of Defence documents are confirming about the MoD’s former UFO program. Side jabs are taken at the MoD’s seemingly senseless brushing aside of its own people’s informed opinion on the potential threat of an unknown phenomenon, and the way that British tabloids treat “this stuff.” Then Cox proceeds to the “payoff” update about the rather goofy conclusions of Project Condign, which provided official “cover” for closure of the UFO program. Cox highlights that the “fix” was in on Project Condign’s recommendation for termination two years before the Condign study’s completion. An interesting and instructive parallel with the University of Colorado UFO Project. (WM)

So too is information about “UAPs [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena] in the UK Air Defence Region,” better known as the “Condign Report.” And a bombshell: the very author of the Condign Report forecast his most important recommendation before the study was finished, echoing Dr. Condon’s writing his conclusions to the University of Colorado UFO Project before the various project teams had completed their work and reports, and statement in January 1967 that he was inclined to recommend the government gett out of “this [UFO] business…but I’m not supposed to reach a conclusion for another year.” (WM)

The Move to Dismantle Unidentified Flying Objects, Replaced by Unidentified Aerial Phenomena UFO Conjectures
Rich Reynolds takes issue with the new investigative organization The Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU) diminishing the ET aspect of UFOs by using the term “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.” The organization, it should be noted, does employ “Ufology” in its “Scientific Coalition for Ufology” title, as an overarching designation for a comprehensive inquiry into “UFOs USOs [Unidentified Submerged/Submarine Objects] and UAPs.” It may also be argued that the SCU is merely recognizing that no one title suffices for the panoply of reports currently lumped into the general subject. For example, the Project Condign study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, released to the public in 2006, and Richard Haines’ former organization NARCAP (National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena), founded in 1999, represent less-inclusive efforts to characterize the range of study. 
And while we’re up there orbiting earth, here’s an interesting tidbit from Billy Cox who wonders just what was going on with Project Condign, the British Ministry of Defense’s 3-year project to study UFOs. The study changed UFO to the more user-friendly UAP (unidentified ariel phenomenon) and showed a relation between those and some really weird weather that exposed witnesses to radiation, caused hallucinations and episodes of lost time. Cox wonders if this phenomenon was part of the Rendlesham Forest incident and were those witnesses perhaps zapped by weapons-grade weather.