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We discovered some rather curious timing in those heady 1969 NASA space race to the moon days. By 1969 Chariots of the Gods was a bestselling book which seemed to provide evidence of ‘ancient astronauts’ setting foot on earth thousands of years before man invented a one-stage rocket. In early January of 1969, when LBJ was pinning medals on the three NASA astronauts who had circled the moon, the mainstream news media picked up the UFO report, The Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects a report by Dr. Edward U. Condon, Director of the University of Colorado Project. A report commissioned by the Air Force for $500,000. The report was published by Bantam Books in association with the New York Times. The cost of the book, $1.95. A book which set the stage for the Air Force to disengage from UFO ‘investigations’ terminating Project Blue Book in 1970.
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