The work of an investigator who dismissed the existence of flying saucers -- a finding that hardly matters to UFO believers -- has been turned over to Texas A&M University. The nine boxes of material from physical scientist Roy Craig range from reports of visits by space aliens to purported landing sites. Craig's files include correspondence, photographs, popular and scientific articles about UFOs and aliens, plus a lawn mower muffler, aluminum shavings and globs of metal found at sites of purported UFO landings. They will be available for examination at A&M's Cushing Memorial Library. Craig was an investigator with the University of Colorado's Air Force-financed Condon Project released 35 years ago. The Air Force used the report in 1969 as the basis for its decision to stop monitoring reported UFO sightings. The report, however, didn't end worldwide interest in UFOs. A UFO museum wanted to move Craig's documents to Roswell, N.M., the city known for a purported crash of an alien craft in 1947 and featured in television's "The X-Files."

"UFOs are popular things," Craig, 79, told the Houston Chronicle in a telephone interview from his home in Ignacio, Colo. "I think UFOs really have had an impact on our culture. I'm not unhappy about that. I think that's fine."

View: Full Article | Source: nbc5i.com