Washington, D.C.: NPIC briefs Condon team on photo analysis debunking Roseville UFO photos
On May 5, 1967, Condon, Low, Hartmann, Ratchford and Charles Reed of the National Research Council were briefed at the NPIC on a photogrammetric analysis debunking the November 1966 Roseville, Ohio, UFO photos; the same day the project gave AFOSR a position paper.
Background
Edward Condon, Robert Low, William Hartmann, J. Thomas Ratchford and Charles Reed of the National Research Council were briefed at the National Photographic Interpretation Center by an unnamed specialist, probably Everitt L. Merritt of Raytheon's Autometrics Division, on his photogrammetric analysis of the November 1966 UFO photos from Roseville, Ohio. The analysis debunked the photos. The committee was again impressed by the technical work, and Condon remarked that for the first time a scientific analysis of a UFO would stand up to investigation. The same day Condon's group presented a position paper on the state of its thinking to the USAF Office of Scientific Research. Condon and Low argued that, given the project's limited time, it was unlikely to obtain actual real-time data on current sightings and would have to base its conclusions on data extracted from existing reports. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.