Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Correspondence from Philip G. Strong to Dr. Thornton Page regarding student essays on flying saucers
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AI-Generated Summary
Philip G. Strong writes to Dr. Thornton Page regarding a collection of student essays on flying saucers. The author praises the students' intellectual approach to the subject while noting that no new evidence or positions were discovered.
This document is a letter dated January 29, 1960, from Philip G. Strong to Dr. Thornton Page of the Department of Astronomy at Wesleyan University. The correspondence acknowledges the receipt of fourteen essays written by Dr. Page's freshman students concerning the subject of flying saucers. Mr. Strong indicates that these essays were reviewed by individuals in his office. He expresses that the papers were found to be extremely interesting and reflected a solid intellectual effort to evaluate the available evidence. Mr. Strong commends the students for their ability to distinguish between subjective views and objective reporting. He concludes that while the exercise did not yield any essentially new substantiating positions on the topic, it was a stimulating experience to view the subject through the perspective of the students.
It is interesting that with a fresh and energetic group involved no essentially new substantiating positions emerged from the exercise.
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Official Assessment
The author notes that the student essays were interesting and demonstrated a solid intellectual attempt to evaluate evidence regarding flying saucers, though no new substantiating positions emerged from the exercise.
Key Persons
- Thornton PageRecipient of the letter and academic