Project Condign

Project Condign (not to be confused with the <a href="/facts/Condon_Committee/orWUqslI">Condon Committee</a>) was a secret <a href="/facts/Unidentified_flying_object/EcXogHdh">unidentified flying object</a> (UFO) study undertaken by the British Government's <a href="/facts/Defence_Intelligence_Staff/G23ulj2y">Defence Intelligence Staff</a> (DIS) between 1997 and 2000. 
The results of Project Condign were compiled into a 400-page document titled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region that drew on approximately 10,000 <a href="/facts/UFO_sightings_in_the_United_Kingdom/R2LnmjBA">sightings</a> and reports that had been gathered by the DI55, a section of the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence (DSTI) within the DIS.
It was released into the public domain on 15 May 2006 after a September 2005 <a href="/facts/Freedom_of_Information_Act_2000/q5NoFv6V">Freedom of Information Act</a> request by UFO researchers <a href="/facts/David_Clarke_(journalist)/v6E5U6ss">David Clarke</a>, a lecturer at <a href="/facts/Sheffield_Hallam_University/xWS354d3">Sheffield Hallam University</a>, and Gary Anthony, a former <a href="/facts/BUFORA/34BVT6hx">BUFORA</a> astronomical consultant. The identity of the report's author/s was not made public.

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Project Condign