Editing Project Blue Book (section)

===Condon Committee===
{{Main|Condon Committee}}
Criticism of Blue Book continued to grow through the mid-1960s. NICAP's membership ballooned to about 15,000, and the group charged the U.S. Government with a [[cover-up]] of UFO evidence.

Following U.S. Congressional hearings, the [[Condon Committee]] was established in 1966, ostensibly as a neutral scientific research body. However, the Committee became mired in controversy, with some members charging director [[Edward Condon|Edward U. Condon]] with bias, and critics would question the validity and the scientific rigor of the Condon Report.

In the end, the Condon Committee suggested that there was nothing extraordinary about UFOs, and while it left a minority of cases unexplained, the report also argued that further research would not be likely to yield significant results.