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Declassified UFO / UAP Document

Flying Saucers—Student Papers Thereon Received from Dr. Thornton Page

🏛 Applied Science Division 📄 Office Memorandum
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This 1960 memorandum documents the return of 14 student essays on flying saucers to Dr. Thornton Page. The author concludes that while the papers were intellectually stimulating, they provided no new evidence regarding the subject.

This office memorandum, dated January 26, 1960, was authored by H. E. Likow, Chief of the Applied Science Division, and addressed to the Deputy Assistant Director of Collection. The document serves as a transmittal note for 14 student essays concerning 'flying saucers' that were being returned to Dr. Thornton Page. In his assessment of the papers, Likow notes that the students made a solid intellectual effort to evaluate the evidence. He observes that the subject remains a stimulating topic for exercising the rational powers of both young and old minds. Furthermore, Likow commends the students for their ability to distinguish between subjective views and objective reporting. Ultimately, he concludes that the exercise yielded no new, significant, or substantiating evidence regarding the phenomenon.

It seems significant that no essentially new substantiating evidence emerged from this exercise.

Official Assessment

The problem apparently remains a stimulating one, and especially suitable for exercising the rational powers of minds both young and old. Most of the students have done a good job in separating subjective views from objective reporting. It seems significant that no essentially new substantiating evidence emerged from this exercise.

The student papers were found to be interesting and demonstrated an intellectual attempt to evaluate evidence, though they provided no new substantiating evidence regarding flying saucers.

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