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Sagan & Page (eds.), 'UFO's: A Scientific Debate'
Proceedings of the 1969 American Association for the Advancement of Science symposium on UFOs, edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page.
1972 CE · 42.36, -71.06 · status: account
The account
It put proponents such as James McDonald and J. Allen Hynek alongside skeptics such as Donald Menzel and social scientists, giving the rare spectacle of a balanced scientific debate on the subject. It remains a useful snapshot of the arguments at the time of the Condon Report.
The sceptical view
The symposium did not change the mainstream conclusion that UFOs were not a productive scientific topic.