Posts Tagged ‘Project Blue Book’

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Majestic 12 or “MJ-12″ Reference Report

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The National Archives

The National Archives has received many requests for documentation and information about "Project MJ-12." Many of the inquiries concern a memorandum from Robert Cutler to Gen. Nathan Twining, dated July 14, 1954. This particular document poses problems for the following reasons:

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Project Blue Book General Information

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The National Archives

The United States Air Force retired to the custody of the National Archives its records on Project BLUE BOOK relating to the investigations of unidentified flying objects. Project BLUE BOOK has been declassified and the records are available for examination in our research room. The project closed in 1969 and we have no information on sightings after that date.

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UFOs & Project Blue Book

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

The National Archives

The following is a copy of the US Air Force Fact Sheet distributed by Wright-Patterson AFB in January 1985.

On December 17, 1969, the Secretary of the Air Force announced the termination of Project BLUE BOOK, the Air Force program for the investigation of UFOS.

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The UFO Experience - A Scientific Inquiry

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

J. Allen Hynek

The popular impression through the years was that Blue Book was a full-fledged, serious operation. The public perhaps envisioned a spacious, well-staffed office with rows of file cabinets, a computer terminal for querying the UFO data bank, and groups of scientists quietly studying reports, attended by a staff of assistants.

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Air Force closes study of UFO’s

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

New York Times

USAF Secretary Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. said: in a menorandum yesterday that Project Blue Book is closed since continuation of the study of UFO’s "no longer can be justified either on the ground of National Sesurity or in the interest of Science."

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Project Blue Book

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Loy Lawhon

In the features Project Sign, and Project Grudge, we saw that, after General Hoyt Vandenburg rejected the conclusions of Project Sign’s 1948 "Estimate of the Situation" as being unfounded, the attitude of the Air Force toward UFOs changed. The name change of its official agent for UFO investigation changed on 16 December 1948 from Project Sign to Project Grudge reflected this change in attitude, as did the final report of Project Sign. On 27 December 1949, a year after its creation, Project Grudge was officially closed and its final report was issued shortly thereafter. It was claimed that the 23 percent of UFO reports that could not be explained by ordinary phenomena could be explained by psychological phenomena.

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