Declassified UFO / UAP Document
Correspondence regarding student essays on flying saucers
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AI-Generated Summary
A 1960 letter from Philip G. Strong to Dr. Thornton Page acknowledging receipt of student essays on flying saucers. The author commends the students' objective approach but notes no new findings emerged.
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 letter acknowledges the receipt of fourteen essays written by Dr. Page's students regarding the subject of 'flying saucers.' Mr. Strong notes that he has reviewed the essays and found them to be a 'solid intellectual attempt' to evaluate the evidence, praising the students for their ability to separate subjective views from objective reporting. However, he concludes that the exercise did not yield any essentially new substantiating positions regarding the phenomenon. The letter concludes with a note of appreciation for the opportunity to review the students' work.
Most of them reflect a solid intellectual attempt to evaluate the evidence and certainly do great credit to your group.
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Official Assessment
The author notes that the student essays reflect a solid intellectual attempt to evaluate evidence, but that no essentially new substantiating positions emerged from the exercise.
Key Persons
- Dr. Thornton PageRecipient of the letter and academic contact