UKMODDecember 1, 2000DI55 / DEFE 24

Project Condign — MoD UAP study (2000)

United Kingdom

Summary

Project Condign was the MoD's own classified study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, commissioned in 1996 and completed in December 2000 (released 2006). This executive summary of the roughly 400-page report concludes UAP are real but attributes them to little-understood atmospheric plasma phenomena — the UK's nearest equivalent to the US Condon study.

Key highlights

The report notes that UAP can exhibit exceptional flight characteristics beyond known aircraft.p.6
“they can reportedly alter their direction of flight suddenly”

Outliers

It discusses the potential military applications of plasma technologies related to UAP.p.13
“the underlying physics may have some military application.”

Source

UK Ministry of Defence
via The National Archives (UK), via Internet Archive
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