Science and UFOs

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This video starts immediately after the Michigan UFO Flap of 1966. It covers the Congressional UFO hearings of the 1960s, James McDonald, Edward Condon, Carl Sagan, the AAAS, the NAS, and the close of Project Blue Book. It attempts to demonstrate the mechanisms by which the American Scientific Community came to abandon the subject of UFOs

00:00 Introduction
06:30 The weeks leading to the UFO Hearing
10:30 The First Congressional UFO Hearing in 1968 17:00 James E. McDonald
30:45 Edward Condon and Quantum Mechanics
47:50 World War 2 and the Manhattan Project
59:24 The Atomic Energy Commission and the Red Scare Hearings of the 1950s
01:08:35 The Condon Committee
01:12:09 Problems begin arising with the Condon Committee
01:18:43 Prominent Debunkers of the 1960s
01:22:12 Carl Sagan and UFOs
01:34:32 The CIA during the time of the Condon Committee
1:43:10 The Trick Memo Scandal
01:46:45 The Second Congressional UFO Hearing in 1968
01:48:36 The Release of the Condon Report and NICAP Press Conference
01:55:57 The American Scientific Establishment, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Academy of Sciences
02:03:27 The American Scientific Establishment and Eugenics
02:10:58 The American Scientific Establishment Response to the Condon Report
02:14:34 The 1969 American Association for the Advancement of Science UFO Symposium
02:18:28 J. Allen Hynek's Speech at the AAAS
02:22:40 The Close of Project Blue Book
02:38:53 Testimony from various people from the Blue Book Era
02:46:39 The Offiicial Denial Narrative through the decades
02:52:13 The post 2017 World

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