Project Bluebook

Project Blue Book is a non-profit team to provide volunteer services to Seti@home as described by the scientific program. Early members are from different parts of the United States of America. A nation wide membership was quickly developed, which quickly lead to International involvement. Due to the team's early successes, many members joined the team through simple recruiting efforts.

The decision to discontinue UFO investigations was based on an evaluation of a report prepared by the University of Colorado entitled, "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects;" a review of the University of Colorado's report by the National Academy of Sciences; previous UFO studies and Air Force experience investigating UFO reports during 1940 to 1969.

Blue Book was the Air Force's twenty-one year investigation into the UFO phenomenon. Starting in 1948 the group investigated 12,600 UFO reports and over time assumed the role of an official debunker for the US government in the matter of UFOs. While Blue Book was unable to explain 701 of those reports it had investigated, it also never established there were really alien spacecraft operating in the skies.

After Project Grudge was essentially terminated, the Air Technical Intelligence Division (which became the Air Technical Intelligence Center - ATIC- in 1951) was not very interested in investigating UFO reports. Ruppelt was an intelligence officer assigned to ATIC and, since ATIC handled UFO reports, he became somewhat involved in these sightings. For the first ten months he watched the operations of what was left of Project Grudge and how things were handled. Most of what was conducted was cursory and minimal effort was expended.

(pdf file)Catalog of 1,500 Project BLUE BOOK UFO Unknowns: Work in Progress (Version 1.1, Nov. ... When Project Blue Book (BB) closed down on Jan

The Project Blue Book report, also known as the Condon Report, is titled "Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects." This study was conducted at the University of Colorado in 1968 under contract with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, under contract F44620-67-C-0035. Dutton and Bantam Books also published versions, however, these editions contained 967 and 965 pages respectively, while the report published by the University of Colorado was four volumes with 1465 pages. The report was not distributed to depository libraries nor given a SuDoc number.

A web 2.0 history website, Footnote.com features original historical documents from the largest archives in the United States including the National Archives. The entire Project Bluebook collection featuring almost 130,000 pages of case files relating to UFO sightings from 1947 to 1969. This entire collection is available for free. Footnote.com also provides social tools where visitors can annotate documents, create their own web pages and share their stories and discoveries.

The term used to describe the notoriously skeptical U.S. government official investigation into the UFO phenomena that lasted from 1948 until 1969.

The director of Intelligence himself, General Cabell, had called wanting a response. Lieutenant Cummings, the head of UFO investigations at the time, had to go to the Pentagon to explain the events and the status of UFO investigations. Cummings brought up the fact that since the termination of project Grudge, investigations had been lackluster at best. Ruppelt was asked to step in and assume a leadership role for UFO investigations. The new Project Grudge was back in business in October of 1951.

the letter I submitted to a TV Q&A column about "Project U.F.O." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel finally dropped its own columnist (who handled simple questions), so maybe the new syndicated one can tackle this.