During the next two decades, the air force’s UFO project underwent several reorganizations and name changes, the final name being Project Blue Book. The information gathered was evaluated and discussed not only by the air force but by the Department of Defense. By 1966, many reports of UFO sightings and even abductions had generated a great deal of public excitement. Anxious to put these reports to rest, Congress appointed a committee, headed by University of Colorado physicist and UFO skeptic Dr. Edward Condon, to study the air force’s research with the overt aim of recommending whether any more effort or money should be put into the UFO research project. The committee evaluated 87 of the 25,000 reports the air force had gathered and, even though more than 20 of the 87 cases were listed as unsolved, recommended that “further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justi¬ fied on the expectation that science will be advanced thereby.” As a result of the Condon Report, Project Blue Book, an official air force collection and evaluation of UFO reports was ended in 1969. It was soon revealed that the committee’s covert purpose had been to end UFO research, and it did succeed in that purpose, at least officially. Other organizations continued the research privately and in a less public way than before, so did the air force and other government organizations.